Themed collection Nanoscale Horizons 10th anniversary regional spotlight collection: China

This review aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the current theoretical understanding and design strategies of MXene materials in the aqueous electrochemical energy storage systems field.

Recently, PyCOFs have aroused great interest that pyrene unit could enhance the interlayer π–π interaction and promote the separation and migration of carriers, significantly improving the crystallinity and photoelectrical properties.

The applications of 2D material photodetectors in extensive fields, including imaging, health monitoring, tracking, logic operation, ultraviolet monitoring, communications, automatic driving, and acoustic signal detection, have been introduced.

New evidence for piezoelectric nanomaterials across energy harvesting, piezocatalysis, and biomedicine fields, guiding and supporting future drug delivery system development.

This review briefly describes the fate of nanoparticles in vivo and expounds the mechanism of organ targeting of nanoparticles.

An overview of the recent progress of Ir-based catalysts constructed with different dimensions was provided to make a comprehensive understanding of their structural and catalysis performance.

This paper reviews the research progress in memristor-based neural networks and puts forward future development trends.

This review focuses on the design strategies and advanced functions of pH-responsive wound dressings, and makes a systematic discussion of the challenges and future development trends in this field.

This review focus on the rational design of the highly reversible zinc anode for high-performance aqueous zinc-ion batteries. The design concepts are expected to be applied to other types of high-performance aqueous energy storage systems.

2D material-based functional aerogels with tailored structure and function exhibit high potential for treating hazards with high sustainability.

This article systemically reviews ABO₃ multiferroic perovskite materials and their applications in memristive memory and neuromorphic computing.

The design strategy and synthesis approach impact the physico-chemical properties, catalytic performances and reaction pathways of ODS catalysts.

The integration of various materials and technologies enables the intelligent SDLG biosensor to detect the different types of targets with high sensitivity and generate diversified output signals.

By varying biophysical properties of drug-loaded liposomes such as size, head-group chemistry and polarity, fluidity, rigidity, and PEGylation, their effects on both passive and active targeting are reviewed with cancer therapy as the main example.

Oxygen vacancies can promote Li-ion diffusion, reduce the charge transfer resistance, and improve the capacity and rate performance of Li-ion batteries. However, oxygen vacancies can also lead to accelerated degradation of the cathode material structure, and lead to phase transition etc.

This review presents recent advances and challenges in the interface engineering of 2D TMDCs and emerging electronics based on TMDCs.

This review summarizes the development of PCN, i.e., synthesis, morphology, modification, and application in recent years. This review can provide a comprehensive view of PCN and lay a foundation for the design of ideal photocatalysts in the future.

A comprehensive insight into the wettability of graphene with respect to water droplets, specifically including the influencing factors and reversible transformation, is presented in this review.

This review addresses the formation, fabrication methods, properties and applications of wrinkled patterns in 2D materials.

Bioinspired functional materials with specific wettability: from nature and beyond nature.

The latest developments of NIR light-activated upconversion photocatalysts, and the in-depth mechanisms, prospects and remaining challenges with respect to fundamental investigations and solar energy conversion applications are discussed comprehensively.

In this review, we present an in-depth discussion of the state-of-the-art doping engineering and functionalization of 2D metal chalcogenides for finely tuned material properties and functions in numerous application fields.

Recent studies on nanoscale Bi-based photocatalysts including component adjustment, morphology control, heterojunction construction and surface modification are reviewed.

Copper is an earth abundant, inexpensive metal readily available from commercial sources, which is increasingly coming into focus for light-emitting metal nanocluster research.

A high-entropy perovskite fluoride with a well-defined nanocubic structure was successfully prepared via a polyvinylpyrrolidone-confined nucleation strategy, demonstrating excellent electrocatalytic activity for nitrate reduction.

An ionically cross-linked composite hydrogel electrolyte based on biomacromolecules is developed to enable highly reversible zinc anode, thereby improving the electrochemical performance of sustainable and flexible zinc-ion batteries.

Phenethylammonium bromide as an interlayer showed great potential to reduce trap states, balance charge carrier injection, and thus maximize the electroluminescent efficiency of quantum-dot LED.

Low limiting potential, high product selectivity, strong visible light absorbance and satisfactory band edge positions make Cu₂S monolayers a very compelling photocatalyst for CO₂ reduction.

Novel nanoMof (Tf-LipoMof@PL) can induce both ferroptosis and pyroptosis by iron and ROS enrichment, which provides new choices for anti-cancer therapy.

Annealing core@shell nanoparticles (NPs) yields high-entropy alloy NPs. Owing to their dispersed Pt/Pd content and low elemental diffusivity, they exhibit enhanced electrocatalytic performance and durability for the oxygen reduction reaction.

MBenes hold many merits for electrocatalysis of the nitrogen reduction reaction, including outstanding stability in aqueous environments, excellent electrical conductivity, an inhibited hydrogen evolution reaction, and highly active boron and metal surfaces.

Lead-free Bi-based perovskite FA₃Bi₂X₉ (X = Cl, Br, and I) quantum dots (QDs) are synthesized for the first time at room temperature. The ligand-passivated FA₃Bi₂Br₉ QDs exhibit blue emission at 437 nm with photoluminescence quantum yield (PLQY) up to 52%.

Inspired by 3D MAB, we propose a new concept of 2D MBenes, among which MnB metal exhibits stable ferromagnetism (FM) and high Curie temperature.

Transferrin-capped hollow mesoporous silica nanoparticles through disulfide linkages realize tumor-targeting delivery and glutathione-induced drug release.

Peptidic nanofibers can provide convenience for administration, and facilitate the induction of multiple crucial immunities against HIV DNA vaccine, including polyfunctional T cell response, broad IgG subclasses response, and V1/V2 loop-specific antibody response.