This Perspective discusses some of the challenges that pharmaceutical companies face in the use of lipid excipients at each stage of development, and proposes recommendations on how to streamline regulatory expectations.

This Review clarifies the charge storage and transport mechanisms at confined electrochemical interfaces in electrochemical capacitors, emphasizing their importance in fast-charging energy storage applications.

This Review presents a path to strategically overcoming extracellular vesicle heterogeneity and assay standardization, and offers solutions for realizing the clinical translation of extracellular vesicles for diagnostics and nanotherapeutics.

This Review explores how machine learning approaches can drive progress in nanotheranostics.

An optically induced spin current pulse induces gigahertz magnetization dynamics in Mn₃Sn with a spin coherence length of approximately 15 nm, which is longer than in ferromagnets.

In this study, the authors present optimization and efficacy testing of apolipoprotein-based lipid nanoparticles for delivering various nucleic acid therapeutics in vivo to immune cells and their progenitors in the bone marrow.

The work studies the switchable excitonic response in trilayer 3R-MoS₂ and shows that the polarization switching pathway in multilayer sliding ferroelectrics results from interactions between domain walls, pinning centres and free-carrier screening.

A multivalent immobilization strategy uses hydrogen, ionic and coordination bonds that interact with perovskite, enabling deep-blue perovskite LEDs to achieve an external quantum efficiency of 15.36% at 459 nm.

The specific energy and cycle life of rechargeable non-aqueous Na-based batteries are influenced by the type of electrolyte used. Here the authors propose a sulfonyl imide-rich electrolyte solution to improve the energy content and life span of various Na-based batteries.

Here the authors present photo-nanopores in which α-haemolysin monomers are modified with arylazopyrazoles, allowing quantitative photoswitching of the transmembrane ionic current, analogous to electronic diodes and light-tunable resistors in response to light.

Nanotechnology fosters energy-efficient devices that significantly boost on-chip performance for faster, more powerful AI, while also supporting dense integration of sensing and computing, reducing power consumption for advanced on-chip intelligence.

Thermophotovoltaics has made great progress recently and the first start-ups are entering the market with storage systems for renewable energy. But how promising is this technology?

Companies are scaling up proton exchange membrane electrolyser production, but the technology needs to grow much faster, and become less expensive, to meet ambitious climate goals.

The lack of standardization in the protocols used to assess the physicochemical properties of the battery electrode surface layer has led to data dispersion and biased interpretation in the literature. Here I propose guidelines for investigating it properly — or at least to allow a fair comparison between literature data.

Understanding and adopting an appropriate electrochemistry language will foster constructive collaborations among battery research community members with diverse scientific backgrounds.