Nature Nanotechnology

Nature Nanotechnology, Published online: 27 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41565-026-02172-7 An annular carbon-nanotube nanosensor array integrated onto a medical-grade catheter enables near-infrared, in situ spatial mapping of bladder cancer-associated protein biomarker release in the bladder with 182-fold higher sensitivity than urine sampling.

Nature Nanotechnology, Published online: 02 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41565-026-02162-9 High-performance 2D nanoribbon transistors are achieved with channel width scaling down to below 100 nm.

Nature Nanotechnology, Published online: 01 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41565-026-02180-7 Self-inserting DNA origami tiles form stable nanopores across live neuronal membranes, enabling intracellular-like voltage recordings, small-molecule delivery and access to hard-to-reach dendrites without membrane rupture.

Nature Nanotechnology, Published online: 02 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41565-026-02161-w Monolayer TMD nanoribbon transistors using anchored contacts and multipatterning achieve high on-state currents down to 25 nm widths, positioning them as key building blocks for future gate-all-around nanosheet electronics.

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.

Nature Nanotechnology, Published online: 01 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41565-026-02187-0 A hydrophobic, electrode‑philic ether additive self‑assembles into a nanoscale liquid electrolyte interphase that decouples interfacial and bulk electrolyte behaviour, suppresses water‑driven parasitic reactions and enables efficient aqueous zinc batteries.

Nature Nanotechnology, Published online: 18 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41565-026-02186-1 Artificial neurons based on printed molybdenum disulfide nanosheet networks achieve multi-order spiking dynamics that operate on physiologically relevant timescales, offering a platform for next-generation biohybrid interfaces.

Nature Nanotechnology, Published online: 19 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41565-026-02150-z Ni-decorated LiBH4 nanocomposites achieve room-temperature hydrogenation of boron, enabled by synergistic catalysis and nanostructuring that promotes H2 dissociation and B–H bond formation, a key step for practical hydrogen storage systems.

Nature Nanotechnology, Published online: 19 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41565-026-02190-5 Nanoplastics research must embrace a chemistry‑led framework and integrate molecular‑level metrics to measure, classify, regulate, and mitigate environmental and health impacts.

Nature Nanotechnology, Published online: 14 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41565-026-02151-y Multiplexed super-resolution microscopy of DNA-barcoded lectins and metabolically incorporated unnatural sugars quantitatively links the nanoscale spatial relationships of glycocalyx organization and cellular state.

Nature Nanotechnology, Published online: 07 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41565-026-02175-4 A high-entropy oxide sub-nanowire monolithic electrocatalyst with intrinsic self-adhesion enables durable seawater electrolysis via lattice oxygen activation, offering a new route to stable hydrogen production.

Nature Nanotechnology, Published online: 13 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41565-026-02167-4 A molecular engineering strategy using dipolar self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) establishes interfacial polarity as a descriptor for battery electrode stability. By tuning the electronic structure of the SAM and, thus, nanometric surface environment of the positive electrode, stable operation of high-potential li…

Nature Nanotechnology, Published online: 12 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41565-026-02174-5 Tunable polaritonic skyrmions and related topological textures are generated by non-local photonic metasurfaces, enabling reconfigurable nanoscale topologies on a chip.

Nature Nanotechnology, Published online: 13 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41565-026-02183-4 Seawater electrolysis is limited by the challenge of achieving both high catalyst activity and stability. Now, a self-adhesive monolithic electrocatalyst composed of high-entropy oxide sub-nanowires is developed that addresses this trade-off. Combining sub-nanoscale confinement with a high-entropy composition, th…

Nature Nanotechnology, Published online: 14 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41565-026-02168-3 This Perspective traces the chemical complexity arising from the material properties of nanoplastics and outlines more nuanced analytical characterization approaches to comprehensively probe their environmental fate and biological interactions.

Nature Nanotechnology, Published online: 14 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41565-026-02154-9 Glycan atlassing is a method for the detection of the spatial organization of cell-surface glycosylation patterns at nanoscale. It shows that such patterns reflect the functional state of the cell, providing direct evidence that the cell-surface glycome encodes biological information via its spatial organization.

Nature Nanotechnology, Published online: 27 April 2026; doi:10.1038/s41565-026-02165-6 Chemical hardness engineering synchronizes the growth of two perovskite layers in tandem solar cells, suppressing composition gradients and defects, and enabling certified efficiencies of 30.3% (rigid) and 28.0% (flexible) with improved stability.

Nature Nanotechnology, Published online: 29 April 2026; doi:10.1038/s41565-026-02164-7 Modular RNA nanostar motifs spontaneously assemble into programmable synthetic condensates in the nucleus and cytoplasm, with RNA design controlling localization, sequence-specific target recruitment and orthogonal assembly.

Nature Nanotechnology, Published online: 27 April 2026; doi:10.1038/s41565-026-02158-5 Decoherence suppression in quantum dots can advance coherent telecom single-photon sources.

Nature Nanotechnology, Published online: 23 April 2026; doi:10.1038/s41565-026-02152-x A molecular engineering strategy using self-assembled monolayers to modulate interfacial polarity stabilizes high-potential lithium metal batteries by regulating interfacial solvent interactions and suppressing electrolyte decomposition up to 4.7 V.