This Perspective discusses some of the challenges that pharmaceutical companies face in the use of lipid excipients at each stage of development, and proposes recommendations on how to streamline regulatory expectations.

This Review clarifies the charge storage and transport mechanisms at confined electrochemical interfaces in electrochemical capacitors, emphasizing their importance in fast-charging energy storage applications.

This Review presents a path to strategically overcoming extracellular vesicle heterogeneity and assay standardization, and offers solutions for realizing the clinical translation of extracellular vesicles for diagnostics and nanotherapeutics.

This Review explores how machine learning approaches can drive progress in nanotheranostics.

Aqueous and non-aqueous Li-based electrolyte solutions have narrow electrochemical stability windows, which hinder the operation of batteries at high cell potentials. Here, to circumvent this limitation, the authors propose the combined use of tailored aqueous and non-aqueous electrolyte solutions in various Li-based cell configurations.

X-ray synchrotron measurements reveal heterogeneities at electrode|electrolyte interfaces of lithium metal batteries operating at high potentials. Here the authors demonstrate the rearrangement of ionically conductive phases in polymer electrolytes that lead to battery performance degradation.

A three-site Kitaev chain, constructed from three semiconducting quantum dots coupled by superconducting segments in a hybrid InSb/Al nanowire, shows enhanced robustness of edge zero-energy modes against variations in the coupling strengths or electrochemical potentials compared with a chain containing only two quantum dots.

The authors present a photocatalytic method to selectively oxidize glycerol to hydroxypyruvic acid over rubidium–iridium catalytic pairs on poly(heptazine imides) under visible-light illumination.

A graphene-nanopocket-protected pure Pt nanocatalyst has been reported for heavy-duty-vehicle fuel cells that deliver high power density, high efficiency and exceptional durability with >200,000-h projected lifetime.

Carbon–hydrogen and carbon–deuterium bonding in organic polymers were mapped in real space with single-nanometre spatial resolution using a monochromated transmission electron microscope.

How far away are lab-scale nanotechnologies from commercialization? We asked two journalists to investigate.

Nanotechnology fosters energy-efficient devices that significantly boost on-chip performance for faster, more powerful AI, while also supporting dense integration of sensing and computing, reducing power consumption for advanced on-chip intelligence.

Thermophotovoltaics has made great progress recently and the first start-ups are entering the market with storage systems for renewable energy. But how promising is this technology?

Companies are scaling up proton exchange membrane electrolyser production, but the technology needs to grow much faster, and become less expensive, to meet ambitious climate goals.

The lack of standardization in the protocols used to assess the physicochemical properties of the battery electrode surface layer has led to data dispersion and biased interpretation in the literature. Here I propose guidelines for investigating it properly — or at least to allow a fair comparison between literature data.