Themed collection Celebrating 10 Years of Nanoscale Horizons: 10th Anniversary Collection

A pioneering review of process intensification strategies in nanomaterial synthesis, detailing mechanisms and applications to accelerate advances in the field.

This review provides an overview of recent progress in tattoo electrodes, emphasizing fabrication techniques and material selection, and explores their broad range of applications in wearable bioelectronic systems.

Although scanning probe microscopy is the main analytics of on-surface synthesis, it alone cannot address all relevant scientific questions. This gap is filled by complementary analytics, which decisively contribute to the advancement of the field.

This article explores the electroreduction capabilities of metal nanoclusters, highlighting the structure–property correlation and its impact on product selectivity–ultimately guiding the design of efficient electrocatalysts for CO₂ reduction.

The integration of gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) with lipid bilayers, gives rise to powerful synergistic effects arising from nanoscale interactions.

This review explores the application of nanoarchitectonic to confined nanostructures, with a particular focus on advanced in situ characterization and tracking techniques that reveal the dynamic processes of chemical reactions within nano-reactors.

Schematic illustration showing the regulatory effects of “cell climbing stones” on neurite outgrowth and the migration of NSCs and SCs.

The conductivity of nanoscale molecular wires assembled from metal superatoms exhibits an increase with length.

Constructing dimeric donors through hyperconjugation effects to synergistically enhance the efficiency and stability of organic solar cells.

Etching of faceted nanoparticles with polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons provides an oxygen-free route to monodisperse colloids, as exemplified with plasmonic Mg structures.

Strain gradients in untwisted homo-bilayer graphene result in moiré superlattices. Force-field and DFT simulations reveal three kagome-like patterns with tunable electronic kagome bands near the Fermi level, extending moiré engineering beyond twist.

The piezoelectric PVDF membrane prepared by self-polarization utilized the piezoelectric effect to achieve efficient and flux-stable emulsion separation.

Single-atom Mo doping induces the structural transformation of NiO into Ni(OH)₂ during the alkaline hydrogen evolution reaction, significantly enhancing catalytic activity.

Indirect targeting improves monoclonal antibody biodistribution, safety and efficacy in the treatment of solid tumors.

A simple tannic acid (TA)-mediated modification creates atomically dispersed Co in N-doped carbon on carbon nanotubes. This facilitates rapid electron transfer and efficient O₂/ion diffusion, enabling durable aqueous and solid-state Zn-air batteries.

Quantum dots (QDs) coated with π-conjugated ligands display triplet energy transfer. The efficiency strongly depends on the binding and the molecular orientation, presenting guidelines for efficient photon upconversion via QD photosensitization.

Two-dimensional materials that combine magnetism and topology offer unique advantages in the fields of spintronics and quantum computing.

We used a synergistic strategy involving PVP pre-embedding and vanadium valence hybridization. PVP stabilizes the material between oxide layers, enhancing cycling stability and promoting multielectron vanadium reactions through V⁴⁺/V⁵⁺ mixed valence.

Layer-polarized ferroelectricity and ferrovalley in A-type antiferromagnetic RuClF bilayer through the interlayer sliding and interlayer exchange interactions are proposed.

A novel NIR light-actuated nanoantibiotic based on MOF-derived nanozymes loaded with botanicals for the synergistic treatment of intracellular antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections.

Ti₃C₂T_x is a versatile filler for biopolymer foams, introducing complementary functionalities like triboelectricity, thermal insulation and fire retardancy that can be exploited in energy and safety applications.

CoWO₄ nanoparticles with feature bimetallic W and Co active sites are employed to optimize the hydrogenation of *NO_x and suppress hydrogen evolution reactions, thereby facilitating highly efficient NO₃⁻ reduction to NH₃.

In this study, a Y-doped Ni-based photothermal catalyst (NiY/KCC-1) was designed for the DRM reaction. Y–Ni electron transfer stabilizes more active sites (Ni⁰), and then enhances the photothermal effect, leading to excellent catalytic performance.