Volume 13 Issue 6, June 2018

Biomimetic devices that mimic butterfly wing nanostructures will help the fight against glaucoma.

Degenerately doped semiconductors can sustain spin-polarized populations of electrons at room temperature.

RNA polymerase-based nanomotors can not only rotate a supramolecular wheel, but can also walk along a predefined linear track — autonomously and unidirectionally.

An automated robotic system is capable of assembling 2D van der Waals heterostructures of unprecedented complexity in a timely fashion.

A graphene sheet near a metal nanoantenna squeezes infrared photons into a subnanometric gap, pushing the limits of nanophotonics.

This Perspective discusses recent progress and future opportunities for borophene research.

Electron holography enables direct experimental verification of the existence of chiral bobbers in thin films of chiral magnets.

A new matrix engineering strategy enables improvements of CQD solar cell efficiency via considerable enhancement of the photocarrier diffusion length.

Cyclotron plasmonic modes can be used to induce carrier polarization in doped semiconductors.

The van der Waals gaps in h-BN and MoS₂ provide quantum confinement effects at ambient temperature, dominating the entry barriers of protons and deuterons.

Protein-actuated clustering of magnetic nanoparticles enables MRI-based measurement of extracellular calcium ion dynamics in the living rodent brain.

Monodispersed superparamagnetic nickel colloidal nanocrystal clusters synthesized by pyrolysis can capture bacteria and bacterial spores and simultaneously exert antimicrobial activity.

Scanning tunnelling spectroscopy of MoS₂ provides insight into the nature of superconductivity in this 2D material.

Effective energy confinement via tailored water transport in hierarchical nanostructured gels enables highly efficient solar vapour generation.

The DNA nanoengine constitutes a chemical energy-driven unidirectional rotor that directionally walks along a predefined multistep track.

A non-invasive, transdermal monitor extracts and detects glucose from the interstitial fluid through individual, privileged, follicular pathways in the skin accessible via a miniaturized, graphene-supported pixel array.

A nanostructured membrane inspired by transparent butterfly wings is used for intraocular pressure sensing in vivo.

Kostya S. Novoselov, professor of physics at the University of Manchester, UK, has been digging into the details of the life of an editor by asking Fabio Pulizzi, Chief Editor of Nature Nanotechnology, some inside information on his work.