Themed collection Celebrating the 20th anniversary of the National Center for Nanoscience and Technology (NCNST)

This mini-review introduces drug loading strategies based on specific interactions. The interactions can be from drugs and their targets, such as tetrodotoxin with a sodium channel, and biomolecular recognition, such as ligand–receptor recognition.

The recent progress of MXene-based nanozymes is reviewed, including the synthetic methods, enzyme-like properties, and biomedical applications.

The biological effects behind US meeting the cell membrane for enhanced endocytosis and drug delivery, including membrane perforation, endocytosis pathway regulation, ion channel variation, and cytoskeleton depolymerization.

The mesenteric functions, influence on diseases, and interaction with nanomaterials.

This article reviews the remarkable advances of quasi-2D DJ perovskites for solar cells and provides perspectives toward their future development.

This review provides an overview of the fundamentals of microfluidic reactors and summarizes their use for fabricating various nanomaterials and applications in the biomedical field.

With the current developmental advancements in nanotechnology, nanofibrous scaffolds are being widely used.

Based on the degree of integration, four levels of in-sensor computing in the field of artificial olfactory are summarized.

This review briefly describes the fate of nanoparticles in vivo and expounds the mechanism of organ targeting of nanoparticles.

Highlight physical mechanism and recent advances in spin injection, organic property-induced spin polarization, covering various spin injection methods, organic magnetic materials, chiral-induced spin selectivity effect, and spinterface effect.

CHMs-derived materials with different nanostructures for various diseases (created with Biorender.com).

This review has summarized the recent progress on the in situ investigations of the growth dynamics of 2D materials.

The review systematically summarizes the applications of RNA-cleaving DNAzymes in recent years, explaining the uniqueness and superiority of RNA-cleaving DNAzymes in biosensing and gene therapy.

Design, development and trend for SERS-active nanomaterials from single component to multi-components are comprehensively introduced, benefiting to the complete understanding of their research status and arousing the research enthusiasm on them.

We summarize the recent theoretical and experimental studies on diamane in its pristine form and functionalized with substituents in terms of atomic structure, synthesis strategies, physical properties, and potential technological applications.

Modulation of the assembly fashion among metal–organic frameworks enabling efficient enantioretentive conversion of epoxide.

Inherent local fluctuating lattice distortions with short-range ordering behaviors in four types of high-entropy oxides have been directly visualized and quantified in real-space by means of scanning transmission electron microscopy imaging technique.

Topological insulator and semimetal QSs with monolayer structures and sub-4 nm lateral sizes demonstrate exceptional NSA performances with ultrahigh nonlinear response (72.4 and 68.4%) and ultralow power excitation (0.49 and 0.80 MW cm⁻²).

Efficient Li⁺ transport channels were established in micro-sized silicon/graphene anodes through the foaming process, maximizing the utilization of silicon and achieving superior electrochemical performance.

In this article, we present an anomalous Hall effect in edge-bonded monolayer graphene.

A strategy of cell membrane-specific self-assembly based on peptide nanomedicine is developed to induce tumor immunogenic death in cancer therapy.

Qx2 is incorporated into PM6:m-BTP-PhC6 based OSCs as a suitable third component to simultaneously increase the V_OC and J_SC due to the lower E_loss of PM6:Qx2 based binary devices, achieving the champion PCE of 18.62%.

A magnetotactic bacteria membrane vesicle-based nanovaccine integrating chemotherapy/immunotherapy/ferroptosis-inducing capability in one, may provide an efficacious treatment option for enhancing tumor synergistic therapy.

Formation of chirality-specific protein corona on gold nanoparticles promotes recognition by lipoproteins, complements, and acute phase proteins that mediates LDL receptor-involved cell uptake and tissue accumulation in vivo.

The excellent 2D materials are finite for optoelectrical devices including transistors, diodes, sensors, and so on, thus modulation of the 2D materials is important to improve the performance of the current eligible 2D materials.

The demands for sensitive, non-invasive and real-time glucose monitoring have grown considerably recently. This work has developed a AuNPs@MOGs-based wearable sensor for sweat glucose detection with ultrahigh sensitivity and wide linear detection.

Based on the quinoxaline central core and branched alkyl chains at the β position of thiophene unit, three NFAs were synthesized. Fine-tuning the central core size can effectively optimize the molecular geometry and their photovoltaic performance.

Au particles deposited on various substrates are employed to discriminate the plasmon resonant enhancement effect and direct electron transfer mechanism in plasmon photocatalytic CO₂RR under visible-light irradiation.

PAA is modified by DTPA pre-chelation with Gd-based monomers to generate an MRI CA with a high r₁ and nanoscale diameter, introducing PAA-Gd, then applied via interstitial space injection to show interstitial stream. The path to kidneys is depicted.

Remarkable magnetic anisotropy provides more possibilities in electronic devices such as quantum information storage and processing.

Chiral supramolecular nanofibers based on symmetry-breaking were constructed, and these produce near-infrared circularly polarized luminescence (CPL) with high dissymmetry factor through energy and chirality transfer.

By tuning counter anions of achiral surfactants in chiral growth, we synthesized island shell plasmonic nanostructures with strong chiroptical responses.