{"title":"How spin-transfer-torque magnetoresistive random access memory bridged spintronics research and the microelectronics industry","authors":"Bernard Dieny","doi":"10.1038/s41565-026-02290-2","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41565-026-02290-2","url":null,"abstract":"Spin-transfer torque magnetoresistive random access memory has emerged as a leading non-volatile memory technology replacing embedded Flash in diverse fields including aerospace, automotive and healthcare applications.","PeriodicalId":18915,"journal":{"name":"Nature nanotechnology","volume":"21 10","pages":"1352-1354"},"PeriodicalIF":37.5,"publicationDate":"2026-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149177735","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From DNA to full-length proteins through nanopore sequencing","authors":"Giovanni Maglia","doi":"10.1038/s41565-026-02302-1","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41565-026-02302-1","url":null,"abstract":"Nanopore protein sequencing has advanced from a theoretical ambition to a practical technology, overcoming major challenges in protein unfolding, transport and signal detection to achieve single-amino-acid and post-translational modification sensitivity. With both full-length and peptide-based approaches progressing towards commercialization, the field is now focused on scaling throughput and refining analysis tools to unlock a new generation of single-molecule proteomics.","PeriodicalId":18915,"journal":{"name":"Nature nanotechnology","volume":"21 10","pages":"1366-1368"},"PeriodicalIF":37.5,"publicationDate":"2026-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149177739","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From nano to technology","authors":"","doi":"10.1038/s41565-026-02315-w","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41565-026-02315-w","url":null,"abstract":"As the journal turns 20, we reflect on the journey nanoscale science has undertaken over the past two decades and how nanoscience-enabled technologies have had a real-world impact.","PeriodicalId":18915,"journal":{"name":"Nature nanotechnology","volume":"21 10","pages":"1351-1351"},"PeriodicalIF":37.5,"publicationDate":"2026-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.comhttps://www.nature.com/articles/s41565-026-02315-w.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149177751","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sai C Yelishala, Yunxuan Zhu, P M Martinez, O Mateos-Lopez, Wan Xiong, Dishan Chooi, Sophie Kimura, Juan Carlos Cuevas, J G Vilhena, Longji Cui
{"title":"Thermal conductance of atomic-scale glass reaches 40% of quantum limit.","authors":"Sai C Yelishala, Yunxuan Zhu, P M Martinez, O Mateos-Lopez, Wan Xiong, Dishan Chooi, Sophie Kimura, Juan Carlos Cuevas, J G Vilhena, Longji Cui","doi":"10.1038/s41565-026-02308-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41565-026-02308-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Heat dissipation limits the performance of nanoscale electronic and quantum devices, yet the fundamental limits of phonon-mediated heat transport at the atomic scale remains unknown. By contrast, atomic-scale electron transport has been extensively studied over the past decades using electronic break-junction platforms. Here we show a custom-fabricated, picowatt-resolution scanning thermal probe that uses thermal feedback to create phononic break junctions at the ultimate atomic scale. We report the formation of atomic junctions of amorphous silicon dioxide (a-SiO<sub>2</sub>)-an archetypal glass-capturing, in real time, the transition from a bulk diffusive heat insulator to a ballistic efficient heat conductor as the tip is withdrawn from a nano-contact to an atomic contact. Remarkably, atomically thin glass junctions support phononic thermal conductance up to 40% of the quantum limit at room temperature, approximately an order of magnitude higher than the phonon thermal conductance of crystalline gold. These results, in conjunction with our atomic simulations, demonstrate that intrinsic structural disorder, which strongly affects macroscopic thermal properties, does not fundamentally constrain heat flow at the atomic limit. Instead, we find that it is the Debye frequency that dictates the phononic thermal conductance. We expect our approach to offer an experimental platform to study heat flow via wave-like coherent phonons and enable the engineering of high-performance thermal phononic devices, such as a thermal diode and transistor.</p>","PeriodicalId":18915,"journal":{"name":"Nature nanotechnology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":37.5,"publicationDate":"2026-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149183047","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How metasurfaces transformed flat optics into information optics","authors":"Alfonso Palmieri, Federico Capasso","doi":"10.1038/s41565-026-02286-y","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41565-026-02286-y","url":null,"abstract":"Metasurfaces became a technology not by making lenses thinner. They became one by concentrating in a single manufacturable layer what conventional optics achieves only with bulky assemblies: sorting light by polarization, spectrum and angle, and delivering rich information, not just images, to the computation behind the light sensor.","PeriodicalId":18915,"journal":{"name":"Nature nanotechnology","volume":"21 10","pages":"1358-1359"},"PeriodicalIF":37.5,"publicationDate":"2026-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149177737","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How lipid nanoparticles evolved from models of biological membranes to systems that enable RNA therapeutics","authors":"Pieter R. Cullis","doi":"10.1038/s41565-026-02287-x","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41565-026-02287-x","url":null,"abstract":"Curiosity-driven studies of lipid organization and lipid asymmetry in biological membranes led to scalable methods for making liposomes, efficient loading of drugs and ionizable cationic lipids. In turn, these advances led to lipid nanoparticles enabling the RNA medicine Onpattro and the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines, and they are now facilitating gene therapies that can potentially treat most human diseases.","PeriodicalId":18915,"journal":{"name":"Nature nanotechnology","volume":"21 10","pages":"1369-1371"},"PeriodicalIF":37.5,"publicationDate":"2026-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149177738","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Where is my graphene battery?","authors":"Katherine Bourzac","doi":"10.1038/s41565-026-02279-x","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41565-026-02279-x","url":null,"abstract":"After years of hype and research, there is still no graphene battery electrode in mass production, but researchers say the material shows promise for energy storage.","PeriodicalId":18915,"journal":{"name":"Nature nanotechnology","volume":"21 10","pages":"1372-1374"},"PeriodicalIF":37.5,"publicationDate":"2026-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149177752","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How single-atom catalysis transformed from a nanoscience curiosity into a new paradigm for heterogeneous catalysis","authors":"Xiang-Ting Min, Botao Qiao, Bing Yang, Aiqin Wang, Yanqiang Huang, Tao Zhang","doi":"10.1038/s41565-026-02299-7","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41565-026-02299-7","url":null,"abstract":"Single-atom catalysis has reshaped heterogeneous catalysis by shifting its central focus from surface and interface to isolated atom-centred active sites. This transition establishes a new paradigm for understanding reactivity, integrating experiments and theory, and advancing heterogeneous catalysis from empirical observations toward a more predictive and precise science.","PeriodicalId":18915,"journal":{"name":"Nature nanotechnology","volume":"21 10","pages":"1363-1365"},"PeriodicalIF":37.5,"publicationDate":"2026-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149177750","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How display technology adopted quantum dots","authors":"Eunjoo Jang","doi":"10.1038/s41565-026-02285-z","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41565-026-02285-z","url":null,"abstract":"Quantum dots — semiconductor nanocrystals whose optical and electronic properties can be tuned by controlling their size, composition and surface chemistry — have found commercial success for display technologies. Their transition from nanophotonics research into an applied modern nanotechnology exemplifies the bottlenecks that many emerging technologies must overcome on the path to commercialization.","PeriodicalId":18915,"journal":{"name":"Nature nanotechnology","volume":"21 10","pages":"1360-1362"},"PeriodicalIF":37.5,"publicationDate":"2026-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149177736","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From a single atom to manufacturable quantum processors in silicon","authors":"L. Kranz, M. Y. Simmons","doi":"10.1038/s41565-026-02300-3","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41565-026-02300-3","url":null,"abstract":"Two decades on from the first atomic-scale devices, atom-based silicon quantum computers have progressed from proof of concept to scalable quantum processors that are rapidly gaining commercial traction. What remains is largely a matter of industrial-scale engineering and 3D integration.","PeriodicalId":18915,"journal":{"name":"Nature nanotechnology","volume":"21 10","pages":"1355-1357"},"PeriodicalIF":37.5,"publicationDate":"2026-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149177749","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}