2026-09-17
Zhengpeng Wang, Jiechen Wang, Yue Cao, Hang-Ming Zhang, Yan Zeng, Sishuo Liu, Songqi Wang, Hehe Gong, Yuhao Zhang, Pingfan Wu, Liang Peng, Han Wang
Two-dimensional materials offer low resistivity, strong thermal management and back-end-of-line compatibility, making them promising for advanced interconnects, backside power delivery and boosting efficiency in next-generation semiconductor chips.
DOI: 10.1038/s41565-026-02274-22026-09-15
Chang Niu, Linjia Long, Luqi Zheng, Shuting Du, Jian-Yu Lin, Kisoo Nam, Zehao Lin, Chang Liu, Juanjuan Lu, Haiyan Wang, Haitong Li, Peide D. Ye
Monolithic 3D integration of oxide semiconductor devices on a 200-mm wafer is demonstrated, enabling vertically interconnected logic and memory and supporting the design of an energy-efficient AI accelerator.
DOI: 10.1038/s41565-026-02276-02026-09-14
Jisu Yoo, Kyunghoon Lee, Ji Su Kim, Yunho Kim, Chansul Park, Jinhee Lee, Jiwon Kim, Sun-Woo Lee, Eonhyoung Ahn, Sonwoo Jung, Jung Duk Seo, Soyeon Lee, Yaewon Kim, Gwang Heon Lee, Kiwook Kim, Soo Ik Park, Daewon Yoon, Jongseok Bae, Changsoon Choi, Hyungju Ahn, Taek-Soo Kim, Dong Chan Kim, Dae-Hyeong Kim, Jiwoong Yang, Moon Kee Choi
Innovative ligand engineering and thermally assisted intaglio transfer printing enhance charge injection and pixel resolution in stretchable quantum-dot light-emitting diodes, achieving high efficiencies and luminance while maintaining mechanical integrity under deformation.
DOI: 10.1038/s41565-026-02272-42026-09-14
Feng Wang
Thermally assisted intaglio transfer printing and interfacial ligand engineering turn quantum dots into stretchable, ultrabright and high-definition displays.
DOI: 10.1038/s41565-026-02278-y2026-09-14
Joseph D. Minnella, Mathieu Ouellet, Amelia R. Klein, Lee C. Bassett
This work demonstrates a parallelized four-qubit entangling gate on a room-temperature spin register, and it operates ten times faster than sequences of two-qubit gates with reduced errors.
DOI: 10.1038/s41565-026-02254-62026-09-14
Pingzhi Li, Gijs W. A. Simons, Tianyu Zhang, Philip P. J. Schrinner, Sohrab Kamyar, Ronald Dekker, Diana C. Leitao, Reinoud Lavrijsen, Yuqing Jiao, Bert Koopmans
This study demonstrates on-chip all-optical switching by integrating magnetic memory elements with photonic circuits, establishing a route towards fully integrated magneto-photonic systems for ultrafast and energy-efficient information technologies.
DOI: 10.1038/s41565-026-02281-32026-09-10
Sangyeon Cho, Nicola Martino, Seok-Hyun Yun
DOI: 10.1038/s41565-026-02295-x2026-09-09
Mingqian Zhang, Ziyi Li, Wenying Hao, Yakun Yi, Ke Zhou, Lei Liu, Hai-Chen Wu
DOI: 10.1038/s41565-026-02294-y2026-07-23
Matteo Bianchini
Nature Nanotechnology, Published online: 23 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41565-025-02088-8 Positive electrode active materials nanocoated with shape-memory polymers show improved electrochemical and mechanical stability during battery operation.]]>
DOI: 10.1038/s41565-025-02088-82026-07-23
Samuel Haeuser
Nature Nanotechnology, Published online: 23 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41565-026-02193-2 Infrared nanoscopy resolves helical edge states in ZrTe5, revealing magnetic-field-induced high-frequency transport channels.]]>
DOI: 10.1038/s41565-026-02193-22026-07-23
Ying Zhang
Nature Nanotechnology, Published online: 23 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41565-026-02194-1 A lipogel tailored with a differential and sustained release of combinatorial drugs can elicit tumour immunogenicity to counteract stemness-associated immunosuppression and augment immune-checkpoint-inhibitor-based immunotherapy.]]>
DOI: 10.1038/s41565-026-02194-12026-07-15
Edwin Cartlidge
Nature Nanotechnology, Published online: 15 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41565-026-02214-0 Researchers believe that it will soon be possible to mass-produce waveguides for wearer-friendly AR glasses.]]>
DOI: 10.1038/s41565-026-02214-02026-07-15
Nature Nanotechnology, Published online: 15 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41565-026-02241-x This year’s Kavli Prize in Nanoscience recognizes the field of twistronics and exemplifies how simple approaches can shape nanoscience research.]]>
DOI: 10.1038/s41565-026-02241-x2026-07-13
Yijie Liu
Nature Nanotechnology, Published online: 13 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41565-026-02226-w Robust and lithiophobic interphases enhance grain-boundary strength in inorganic solid-state electrolytes and stabilize the interfaces of lithium metal and positive electrodes, enabling effective operation of all-solid-state batteries]]>
DOI: 10.1038/s41565-026-02226-w2026-07-10
Kai Li
Nature Nanotechnology, Published online: 10 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41565-026-02228-8 Distinct lithium-ion conduction mechanisms in composite polymer battery electrolytes based on rigid polyanion architectures are identified and quantitatively characterized, providing insight into ion-transport design.]]>
DOI: 10.1038/s41565-026-02228-82026-07-10
Guiyang Gao
Nature Nanotechnology, Published online: 10 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41565-026-02221-1 Coherent twin boundaries enable three-dimensional Li-ion transport and reduce structural stress in Li-rich battery positive electrodes, enabling effective operation of thick electrodes in Li-ion pouch cells.]]>
DOI: 10.1038/s41565-026-02221-12026-07-08
Nature Nanotechnology, Published online: 08 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41565-026-02176-3 Understanding how different signatures of strong interactions relate to one another has been a long-standing challenge. Now, a technique that combines local thermodynamic measurements with transport measurements in a single twisted trilayer graphene device reveals that superconductivity coincides with characteristic oscillations in the electronic compressibility but remains independent of the correlated insulating phases.]]>
DOI: 10.1038/s41565-026-02176-32026-07-06
Patrik Nilsson
Nature Nanotechnology, Published online: 06 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41565-026-02211-3 A synthetic three-footed protein walker assembled from non-motor protein domains takes directional steps along a DNA track powered by Brownian ratchet motion driven by free energy transduction from microfluidically delivered ligands.]]>
DOI: 10.1038/s41565-026-02211-32026-07-03
Emma Martin
Nature Nanotechnology, Published online: 03 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41565-026-02219-9 A monolithic architecture allows electrical injection of carriers into photonic structures without perturbing the optical mode.]]>
DOI: 10.1038/s41565-026-02219-92026-06-23
Ming Xia
Nature Nanotechnology, Published online: 23 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41565-026-02201-5 Coherent 2D–3D van der Waals perovskite heterostructures are grown by cross-dimensional epitaxy, yielding atomically sharp interfaces, controllable domains, spiral chiroptical structures and stable gate-tunable rectification.]]>
DOI: 10.1038/s41565-026-02201-52026-06-22
Lin Lin
Nature Nanotechnology, Published online: 22 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41565-026-02195-0 A deep learning-guided image-feedback system enables non-invasive real-time navigation and spatiotemporally controlled intravesical drug release from magnetic biohybrid microrobots in a murine bladder tumour model, enhancing tissue penetration and therapeutic efficacy.]]>
DOI: 10.1038/s41565-026-02195-02026-06-17
Zezhong Liu
Nature Nanotechnology, Published online: 17 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41565-026-02188-z A nanoparticle adjuvant that safely targets the STING pathway via intranasal administration generates potent mucosal and systemic immunity against diverse coronaviruses in preclinical models and converts existing intramuscular flu vaccines into effective nasal sprays.]]>
DOI: 10.1038/s41565-026-02188-z2026-06-16
Zhen Liu
Nature Nanotechnology, Published online: 16 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41565-026-02197-y Optical multistability comprising three optical states is shown in a compact photonic crystal cavity, enabled by the near-exceptional coupling of high-quality-factor modes.]]>
DOI: 10.1038/s41565-026-02197-y2026-06-15
Hongru Yang
Nature Nanotechnology, Published online: 15 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41565-026-02198-x Programmed synthesis of porous protein crystals enables the immobilization and patterning of diverse materials and molecules with nanoscale spatial precision and allows the controlled, sequential release of biomolecules that guide cell signalling.]]>
DOI: 10.1038/s41565-026-02198-x2026-06-15
Jinhong Du
Nature Nanotechnology, Published online: 15 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41565-026-02196-z A polymer-based nanoplatform that selectively degrades CD147 in liver cancer cells while sparing healthy tissues reprograms lactate metabolism, enhancing antitumor immunity and improving multiple liver cancer therapies.]]>
DOI: 10.1038/s41565-026-02196-z2026-06-12
Qin Wang
Nature Nanotechnology, Published online: 12 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41565-026-02171-8 Nanoparticles accumulate around micrometastases through the enhanced permeability of adjacent normal vessels, a biomechanical pathway that improves nanoparticle delivery and that can be used for the diagnostics and treatment of early stage metastases.]]>
DOI: 10.1038/s41565-026-02171-82026-06-12
Weiwen Xin
Nature Nanotechnology, Published online: 12 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41565-026-02143-y Vertically aligned boron nitride nanotube membranes enable anomalously ultrafast and highly selective lithium-ion transport.]]>
DOI: 10.1038/s41565-026-02143-y2026-06-12
Heena Aggarwal
Nature Nanotechnology, Published online: 12 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41565-026-02170-9 A small molecule loaded in a lipid nanoparticle triggers a viral defence response and induces a strong B cell-mediated immune response, leading to cancer regression in hard-to-treat tumour models.]]>
DOI: 10.1038/s41565-026-02170-92026-06-11
Krishna Chaitanya Kasuba
Nature Nanotechnology, Published online: 11 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41565-026-02179-0 The Perspective highlights key challenges in mechanobiology, including the need to engineer multicellular reference models, develop and refine biophysical methods to manipulate and quantify biomechanical properties across scales and establish theoretical frameworks to interpret complex mechanobiological phenomena.]]>
DOI: 10.1038/s41565-026-02179-02026-06-05
Rui Du
Nature Nanotechnology, Published online: 05 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41565-026-02173-6 A catheter equipped with an annular carbon nanotube sensor array enables real‑time, in situ three‑dimensional chemical imaging of cancer biomarkers, mapping the localization of early-stage tumours.]]>
DOI: 10.1038/s41565-026-02173-6