This Review highlights nanoscale design principles for bifunctional catalysts in polyolefin hydrocracking, emphasizing polymer-specific transport and interface effects for scalable plastic upcycling.

The Perspective highlights key challenges in mechanobiology, including the need to engineer multicellular reference models, develop and refine biophysical methods to manipulate and quantify biomechanical properties across scales and establish theoretical frameworks to interpret complex mechanobiological phenomena.

This Perspective traces the chemical complexity arising from the material properties of nanoplastics and outlines more nuanced analytical characterization approaches to comprehensively probe their environmental fate and biological interactions.

This Review provides insights into the nanoscale physicochemical and electrochemical processes in non-aqueous electrolyte solutions for lithium metal batteries and explores emerging research directions for accelerated and iterative approaches.

Dipoles in self-assembled gold nanogaps synchronize at room temperature, generating spatially coherent light without laser-like narrowing.

A wearable microneedle platform integrating ultrasharp, skin-penetrating tips, mechanical decoupling and electrochemical biosensing enables continuous, minimally invasive molecular profiling in freely moving animals, thereby advancing real-time, personalized health monitoring.

A CMOS-compatible fabrication methodology is developed to incorporate blue-emitting colloidal quantum dots within a silicon nitride (SiN_x) platform to create integrated blue lasers.

Compositionally engineered, spontaneously blinking upconverting nanoparticles enable multicolour super-resolution imaging with a single excitation source and achieve localization precision down to 0.62 Å for single-molecule imaging on cell membranes.

Inversion-symmetric 2D hybrid perovskite semiconductors exhibit optically excited spin lifetimes of 0.7–4.7 ns at room temperature due to intrinsic local symmetry breaking and spin-valley formation.

Infrared nanoscopy resolves helical edge states in ZrTe₅, revealing magnetic-field-induced high-frequency transport channels.

Foundry-compatible transfer of two-dimensional materials is central to angstrom-era complementary FET logic, where atomically thin channels must be moved from growth wafers to target stacks without contamination, strain or interfacial damage. Scalable delamination, bonding and wafer-level metrology are needed to bridge lab-scale device performance with 300-mm CMOS manufacturing.

Researchers believe that it will soon be possible to mass-produce waveguides for wearer-friendly AR glasses.

This year’s Kavli Prize in Nanoscience recognizes the field of twistronics and exemplifies how simple approaches can shape nanoscience research.

Nanoscience provides the conceptual and technological bridge necessary to unify physical and biological perspectives in mechanobiology.

Nanoplastics research must embrace a chemistry‑led framework and integrate molecular‑level metrics to measure, classify, regulate, and mitigate environmental and health impacts.