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  • Comment |

    As researchers, developers, policymakers and others grapple with navigating socially beneficial advanced technology transitions — especially those associated with artificial intelligence, DNA-based technologies, and quantum technologies — there are valuable lessons to be drawn from nanotechnology. These lessons underscore an urgent need to foster collaboration, engagement and partnerships across disciplines and sectors, together with bringing together people, communities, and organizations with diverse expertise, as they work together to realize the long-term benefits of transformative technologies.

    • Andrew D. Maynard
    •  & Sean M. Dudley

  • Comment |

    Nanotechnology is advancing at an accelerated pace in applications and novel nanomaterials. To become an enabling technology for a more sustainable society, we identify and assess nanomaterials and applications trends with potentially significant environmental implications.

    • Arturo A. Keller
    • , Alex Ehrens
    •  & Bernd Nowack

  • Comment |

    Since the early 1990s, the intersection of genetics and nanomedicine has found a home in the clinic as one of the game changers of the past decade, holding great promise in fighting diseases by rapidly developing much-needed therapeutic platforms, from cancer to infectious or genetic diseases. And this revolution was just triggered by the amazing evolving world of messenger RNA and its ‘cues’.

    • João Conde
    • , Robert Langer
    •  & José Rueff

  • Comment |

    A common understanding of the key regulatory term “substance” is needed for the implementation of chemicals regulations for nanomaterials.

    • Bernadette M. Quinn

  • Comment |

    The challenge of assessing the scope and magnitude of risk from nanomaterials is urgent for society and ignoring risks could be detrimental for development. This challenge is bigger than the individual capacities on each side of the Atlantic, but effective cross-Atlantic collaboration can solve essential riddles about the use of nanomaterials.

    • Janeck James Scott-Fordsmand
    • , Mónica João de Barros Amorim
    •  & Christine Ogilvie Hendren

  • Editorial |

    Number of citations in academic papers is not always a good measure for the influence of applied research papers.

  • Q&A |

    Nature Nanotechnology has asked Jong-Hyun Ahn, Yi Cui and Hagan Bayley, corresponding authors of the three papers published in the journal that have received the highest number of citations in the patent literature, to share their insights about doing applied research in academia and whatit takes to transform an idea into a viable technology.

    • Alberto Moscatelli

  • Commentary |

    Despite graphene's apparent potential for anti-corrosion coatings, it is cathodic to most metals and can promote corrosion at exposed graphene–metal interfaces. This may accelerate dangerous localized corrosion that can seriously weaken the coated metals.

    • Chenlong Cui
    • , Alane Tarianna O. Lim
    •  & Jiaxing Huang

  • News & Views |

    The adjustable resistive state of memristors makes it possible to implement sparse coding algorithms naturally and efficiently.

    • Bruno A. Olshausen
    •  & Christopher J. Rozell

  • Feature |

    Formula E — an all-electric car race series — provides a platform for displaying new technologies, and potentially accelerating their development.

    • Andreas Trabesinger

  • Article |

    Synthetic nanoparticles containing rapamycin — a common immunosuppressant drug — when co-administered with any free antigen can induce immune tolerance, offering a way to rescue novel drugs that have failed in the clinic due to antidrug antibodies.

    • Takashi K. Kishimoto
    • , Joseph D. Ferrari
    •  & Roberto A. Maldonado

  • Thesis |

    The potential risks surrounding nanotechnology can often appear complex and confusing. But with some basic guideposts, argues Andrew D. Maynard, navigating them can become a little easier.

    • Andrew D. Maynard

  • Commentary |

    Increasing globalization means that traditional occupational epidemiological approaches may no longer apply, suggesting a need for an alternative model to assess the long-term impact of nanomaterial exposure on health.

    • Michaela Kendall
    •  & Iseult Lynch

  • Thesis |

    Work on a new technology roadmap and an exceptional wave of consolidation hint at fundamental changes in the micro- and nanoelectronics industry, as Christian Martin explains.

    • Christian Martin

  • Thesis |

    Predictions for the development of microelectronics provide a valuable example about the virtues of measured promises in nanotechnology, as Chris Toumey explains.

    • Chris Toumey

  • Letter |

    Pulsed laser light locally melts nanostructured elements of a plasmonic metasurface to create coloured pixels with a resolution up to 127,000 dots per inch (DPI).

    • Xiaolong Zhu
    • , Christoph Vannahme
    •  & Anders Kristensen

  • Thesis |

    The submission of the first 'smart pill' for market approval, combined with progress in the European nanomedicine landscape, illustrates the positive outlook for drug therapy and health monitoring, explains Christian Martin.

    • Christian Martin

  • Thesis |

    If emerging technologies such as nanotechnology are to reach their full potential we need to radically change our approach to risk, argues Andrew D. Maynard.

    • Andrew D. Maynard

  • In the Classroom |

    Should inventors control the fate of their own inventions? In the US, most universities think not. But, as Emmanuel Dumont explains, the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute at Cornell Tech in New York City bets otherwise.

    • Emmanuel L. P. Dumont

  • Thesis |

    Emerging technologies need to be developed responsibly if their benefits are to outweigh any potential risks. Yet do entrepreneurs really have the luxury of grappling with future consequences from the get-go, asks Andrew D. Maynard.

    • Andrew D. Maynard

  • Feature |

    Emilie J. Siochi explains how most of the properties of graphene could be of use in aerospace applications.

    • Emilie J. Siochi

  • Thesis |

    High-capacity silicon anodes could improve the performance of lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles, but their cyclability has been limited. Christian Martin analyses recent progress in nanoscale engineering that addresses this shortcoming.

    • Christian Martin

  • Thesis |

    Since the 1960s, improvements in integrated circuit design and processing have generated exceptional growth in the semiconductor industry. With feature sizes approaching a few nanometres and 450-mm-wide wafers looming, nanoelectronics is now facing its defining years, says Christian Martin.

    • Christian Martin

  • Commentary |

    The confluence of nanotechnology and biotechnology provides significant commercial opportunities. By identifying, classifying and tracking firms with capabilities in both biotechnology and nanotechnology over time, we analyse the emergence and evolution of the global nanobiotechnology industry.

    • Elicia Maine
    • , V. J. Thomas
    •  & James Utterback

  • Commentary |

    Nanotechnology has the potential to lead to healthier, safer and better tasting foods, and improved food packaging, but the hesitation of the food industry and public fears in some countries about tampering with nature may be holding back the introduction of nanofoods.

    • Timothy V. Duncan

  • Editorial |

    This year's Nobel Prize in Physics can be seen as part of the larger story of hexagonally bonded carbon.

  • Editorial |

    The food industry will only reap the benefits of nanotechnology if issues related to safety are addressed and companies are more open about what they are doing.

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