Themed collection Top articles from NCNST

An overview of generation, regulation and amplification of circularly polarized luminescence (CPL) in porous crystalline nanomaterials by direct synthesis, chirality induction or adaption, and symmetry breaking pathways.

We review recent advances in the development of AuNP-based colorimetric and fluorescent assays for ions and small organic molecules.

This review presents a comprehensive summary of the material–microorganism interface in microbial hybrid electrocatalysis systems.

Nitric oxide (NO), as an endogenous diatomic molecule, plays a key regulatory role in many physiological and pathological processes.

We present an overview of the state-of-the-art research progresses in layered and pyrite-phase structured TMDs for electrocatalytic and photocatalytic water splitting.

We trace the application of type II heterostructured semiconductors in the area of environmental remediation and water splitting, summarize major fabrication methods, describe some of the progress and resulting achievements.

The cellular uptake, intracellular trafficking and toxic response while nanomaterials attach to cells are discussed. Nanomaterials may disrupt lysosome membrane and translocated into mitochondrion or nucleus, in which induce reactive oxygen species (ROS) or genotoxic effects.

This review might provide new impetus to understand nanotechnology and nanomaterials employed for imaging-guided cancer therapy.

This work demonstrated a nanovesicle-potentiated ferroptosis by remodeling the tumor intracellular environment, providing a promising paradigm for designing nanomedicines to heighten ferroptosis-based synergetic therapeutics.

Single atomic Fe–N_x moieties have shown great performance in CO₂-to-CO conversion.

Silica nanoparticles, being easily surface-functionalized and suitable for carrying miRNA-24 which downregulated in cardiomyocytes after acute myocardial infarction.

By using ultrasound-assisted coating technology, we modified fabrics with N_Au NPs to fabricate antibiofilm fabrics.

The exciton dynamics of the acceptor are revealed and enhanced photoluminescence of the heterostructure is achieved by energy transfer and exciton–exciton annihilation suppression.

Biocompatible Fe₃O₄-Pd Janus nanoparticles were designed to achieve significantly high magnetic-photo heating efficiency accompanied by enhanced ROS generation for efficient cancer therapy.

The mechanism of single-mode lasing in CsPbBr₃ microsphere shifts from exciton–exciton scattering to exciton–phonon scattering with the increase in temperature from 77 to 300 K, and two different phonon modes were involved in the exciton–phonon scattering process.

Semiconductor quantum dots showing controlled circularly polarized luminescence were achieved through co-assembling with chiral peptide dendron gelator in water.

A high-temperature driven carrier transfer process of multilayer WS₂ is proposed and demonstrated for significant fluorescence emission enhancement.

A high-performance flexible photoconductor based on a lead-free perovskite was made and it can be used as a light-stimulated synaptic device.

Peptidic nanofibers can provide convenience for administration, and facilitate the induction of multiple crucial immunities against HIV DNA vaccine, including polyfunctional T cell response, broad IgG subclasses response, and V1/V2 loop-specific antibody response.

CH₃NH₃PbI₃/PC₆₁BM solar cells fabricated using the NH₄Cl additive gave a decent PCE of 9.93% and a very outstanding FF of 80.11%.

Flower-like TiO₂ nanostructures with exposed {001} facets were synthesized from Ti powders, and exhibited high photocatalytic activity.

In this work, the self-assembly behavior of a pair of low-symmetry carboxylic acid molecules (H₄OBDB and H₄ADDI) and their co-assembly behavior with trimesic acid (TMA) as a bridging molecule were studied using a scanning tunneling microscope (STM).

Herein, an in situ decomposition–assembly strategy for the versatile fabrication of metal sulfide SPs is developed. In addition to homogeneous Cu₂S, CdS, and ZnS products, the proposed system can even be extended to fabricate hybrid Cu₂S/Fe₂O₃ SPs.

Various 3d transition metal single-atom catalysts supported on N-doped carbon black have been synthesized as alternative low-cost catalysts for electrochemical CO₂ reduction with superior activity and stability.

The development of electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding materials is moving forward towards being lightweight and showing high-performance.

This work reports the assembly of a carbon nanotube hybrid 3D flexible multifunctional film, which further adsorbs sulfur nanoparticles to form a flexible electrode. This electrode offers considerable potential for practical application in flexible Li–S batteries.

The combination of highly N-doped porous carbon structures and a conductive skeleton greatly improved supercapacitance performance.

To extend the functionalities of two-dimensional graphene-like layered compounds as versatile materials, the modification of MoS₂ nanosheets with metal nanoparticles is of great and widespread interest.

The electrostatic tunability of graphene is vital in the field of active plasmons and would be beneficial in tunable infrared and terahertz optical element applications.

We have developed a facile strategy to fabricate WS₂ nanosheets in a large scale that could not only efficiently load photosensitizers but also regulate their singlet-oxygen generation by NIR irradiation.