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Nature Nanotechnology, Published online: 13 August 2025; doi:10.1038/s41565-025-01994-1

Twisting two-dimensional materials gives them novel properties, but it is challenging to program them. Now DNA origami has been shown to seed the growth of twisted superlattices at new scales and with better programmability.

Nature Nanotechnology, Published online: 11 August 2025; doi:10.1038/s41565-025-01974-5

Preventing endosomal damage sensing or using lipids that create reparable endosomal holes reduces inflammation caused by RNA-lipid nanoparticles while enabling high RNA expression.

Nature Nanotechnology, Published online: 11 August 2025; doi:10.1038/s41565-025-01993-2

Room-temperature nonlinear Hall effect has been observed in wafer-scale (001)-oriented SnTe thin films, enabling wireless, ultrabroadband and low-power rectification at zero electrical bias and zero magnetic field.

Nature Nanotechnology, Published online: 11 August 2025; doi:10.1038/s41565-025-01961-w

Single, self-amplifying RNA molecules condensed by an oppositely charged polyelectrolyte self-assemble into compact globular nanoparticles that can be used as vaccines to generate potent immunological responses at low doses.

Nature Nanotechnology, Published online: 11 August 2025; doi:10.1038/s41565-025-01980-7

Intravenous interleukin-10 messenger RNA nanoparticles enhance immune responses in preclinical tumour models, promoting T cell activity and dendritic cell maturation, as well as improving survival and tumour eradication rates, with limited interleukin-10-induced systemic toxicity.

Nature Nanotechnology, Published online: 11 August 2025; doi:10.1038/s41565-025-01979-0

Annexin A1 mRNA-loaded liposomes alleviate acute pancreatitis in mice by restoring macrophage efferocytosis and suppress STING pathway activation, offering a promising nanotechnology-based therapeutic strategy.

Nature Nanotechnology, Published online: 06 August 2025; doi:10.1038/s41565-025-01989-y

The glycocalyx, the cell’s sugar coat, has key roles in immunology, cancer, viral infections, and more. Visualizing its molecular architecture was impossible until now. Here, we combine metabolic labelling with ångström-resolution fluorescence microscopy to visualize individual sugars within glycans on the cell surface, thus obtaining molecular-resolution images of the glycocalyx.

Nature Nanotechnology, Published online: 04 August 2025; doi:10.1038/s41565-025-01977-2

Dynamic Kerr microscopy enables the tracking of the two-step melting of a magnetic skyrmion lattice from a two-dimensional solid through an intermediate hexatic regime to an isotropic liquid and provides direct insights in the occurrence and dynamics of lattice dislocations, the defects that mediate melting.

Nature Nanotechnology, Published online: 04 August 2025; doi:10.1038/s41565-025-01954-9

A mix-and-go system enables the rapid prototyping of antibody formulations, allowing control of their orientation on the surface of LNPs for specific cell targeting, significantly improving the ex vivo and in vivo deliveries of mRNA.

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.