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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

The Cu and Si co-doping could rationally regulate the electronic structure of TiO₂ nanosheets and maneuver the reactive oxygen species for methane activation, which achieves significant photocatalytic methane conversion into ethane.

Novel yellow emissive carbon dots (CDs) with a large Stokes shift are synthesized. The CDs can be employed to fabricate high-performance large-area luminescent solar concentrators due to successful suppression of reabsorption losses.

Double transition metal MXenes with the formula MCr₂CT_x feature ferromagnetic half-metallicity, antiferromagnetic semiconductivity, as well as antiferromagnetic half-metallicity, are interesting for the spintronics community.

A self-amplifying nanodrug was precisely designed to reprogram the Janus-faced nature of ferroptosis via harnessing the positive role of ferroptosis along with reversing its inherent negative role to achieve optimal ferroptotic tumor therapy.

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.

The newly established polycationitrile chemistry was used as a powerful molecular crosslinking strategy to engineer ultratough and ultrastrong GO/polymer hybrid films.

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.

A photosensitizer-based nanoplatform demonstrated amplified photodynamic immunotherapy by tumor microenvironment modulation.

Twisted bilayer graphene provides a new two-dimensional platform for studying electron interaction phenomena and flat band properties such as correlated insulator transition, superconductivity and ferromagnetism at certain magic angles.

Colloidal gold nanonails, exhibiting large electric field enhancement in the mid-infrared region, are synthesized for surface-enhanced infrared absorption (SEIRA).

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%.

Reducing Mn²⁺ ions were doped to tailor the electronic structure of Ni and Fe sites in NiFe-layered double hydroxides.

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

A facile approach for growth of COF nanosheets at the interface of two miscible organic solvents is designed and employed.

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.