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Nature Nanotechnology, Published online: 01 August 2025; doi:10.1038/s41565-025-01986-1

A disorder-to-disorder synthesis strategy now enables the fast, wafer-scale growth of ultraclean monolayer amorphous carbon.

Nature Nanotechnology, Published online: 01 August 2025; doi:10.1038/s41565-025-01987-0

Banks are starting to exploit the very resource that threatens their future: quantum physics.

Nature Nanotechnology, Published online: 01 August 2025; doi:10.1038/s41565-025-01962-9

This Perspective traces the evolution of fundamental and applied aspects of nanomotor research over the past 20 years, highlights current challenges and proposes design principles for developing the next generation of intelligent nanomotors.

Nature Nanotechnology, Published online: 01 August 2025; doi:10.1038/s41565-025-01982-5

An abiotic information ratchet mechanism increases selectivity for the correct DNA duplex from 2:1 at equilibrium to 6:1 under energy-dissipating conditions.

Nature Nanotechnology, Published online: 31 July 2025; doi:10.1038/s41565-025-01991-4

Photonic memristor arrays fabricated from hexagonal boron nitride/silicon heterostructures provide a scalable, silicon-compatible solution for artificial vision systems, featuring broad spectral reconfigurability and promising performance characteristics.

Nature Nanotechnology, Published online: 31 July 2025; doi:10.1038/s41565-025-01988-z

The direct synthesis of uniform polycrystalline hexagonal boron nitride films facilitates complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor integration for scalable memristive electronics, showcasing transfer-free hexagonal boron nitride memristors that exhibit high yield, reliability, multistate operation and low noise.

Nature Nanotechnology, Published online: 29 July 2025; doi:10.1038/s41565-025-01983-4

A nanoengineered, zero-volume-change, complete-sealing Li-based composite electrode, comprising multilayer reduced graphene oxide and zinc oxide, is developed, achieving Li plating/stripping Coulombic efficiencies of ≥99.99%.

Nature Nanotechnology, Published online: 28 July 2025; doi:10.1038/s41565-025-01968-3

An industry-compatible disorder-to-disorder synthesis produces wafer-scale, ultraclean monolayer amorphous carbon in seconds that can be used as a membrane for generating high-precision proton beams.

Nature Nanotechnology, Published online: 28 July 2025; doi:10.1038/s41565-025-01966-5

By combining bioorthogonal metabolic labelling and resolution enhancement through sequential imaging of DNA barcodes, the molecular organization of individual sugars in the native glycocalyx has been resolved at a spatial resolution of 9 ångström.

Nature Nanotechnology, Published online: 23 July 2025; doi:10.1038/s41565-025-01973-6

A photodiode with bio-plausible event sensing, filtering and adaptation behaviours to replicate the retinal nanostructure and visual pathway is presented, enabling consistent and high-performance machine vision under extreme lighting.

Nature Nanotechnology, Published online: 17 July 2025; doi:10.1038/s41565-025-01969-2

This work advances excitonic optoelectronics by demonstrating electrically tunable cavity coupling of interlayer excitons in a van der Waals heterobilayer. Through electrostatic control, a 5-fold increase in exciton lifetime and a 50-fold boost in photoluminescence intensity have been achieved, which highlights the role of in-plane optical dipoles in weak coupling and provides momentum-resolved insights into exciton emission.

Nature Nanotechnology, Published online: 17 July 2025; doi:10.1038/s41565-025-01976-3

Bottom-up, seeded epitaxial assembly using twisted DNA origami seeds directs the formation of 2D DNA lattices to create moiré superlattices, enabling a design space for programmable materials that combine molecular precision with mesoscale complexity.

Nature Nanotechnology, Published online: 14 July 2025; doi:10.1038/s41565-025-01978-1

It is difficult to achieve a balance between maximizing permeation and maintaining high selectivity in gas separation. Mechanochemically crumpled graphene oxide membranes break this trade-off, offering high H2 permeability and H2/CO2 selectivity under industrially relevant conditions. These robust membranes have the potential to be scaled up for energy-efficient decarbonization technologies.

Nature Nanotechnology, Published online: 14 July 2025; doi:10.1038/s41565-025-01971-8

Crumpled graphene oxide (GO) membranes achieve much higher H2 permeability than flat lamellar GO membranes, and their H2/CO2 selectivity of 91 outperforms those of most existing membranes.

Nature Nanotechnology, Published online: 10 July 2025; doi:10.1038/s41565-025-01943-y

Atomically dispersed surficial iron in silver-doped zinc selenide quantum dots with an in situ self-assembly peptide act as efficient catalysts in anti-cancer multitherapy through controlled, ultrasound-induced oxidation.

Nature Nanotechnology, Published online: 01 July 2025; doi:10.1038/s41565-025-01970-9

Photonic crystals enclosed by a circular boundary enable single-mode vortex lasing through momentum-space hybridization of guided resonances — a collective phenomenon distinct from individual resonator physics.

Nature Nanotechnology, Published online: 01 July 2025; doi:10.1038/s41565-025-01964-7

Chiral emission from collective guided modes is demonstrated within a photonic crystal slab, showing an example of collective oscillations in the momentum space.

Nature Nanotechnology, Published online: 27 June 2025; doi:10.1038/s41565-025-01965-6

The hybridization thermodynamics of programmable DNA nanostructures forming metastable loop structures on RNA generate distinct electrical signals during translocation through solid-state nanopores, enabling the identification of single-base alterations.

Nature Nanotechnology, Published online: 26 June 2025; doi:10.1038/s41565-025-01960-x

Shear stress, induced by the tip of an atomic force microscope, stabilizes ferroelastic domain variants and thereby reversibly controls magnetic microstructure and magnetotransport behaviour in thin-film oxides.

Nature Nanotechnology, Published online: 25 June 2025; doi:10.1038/s41565-025-01953-w

NICER is a broad-spectrum nanovaccine (based on a nanovesicle system) that targets both cancer stem-like cells, which drive tumour recurrence, and the bulk tumour cell population. By inhibiting specific enzymes on dendritic cells, NICER enhances effective immune responses against both types of tumour cells.