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.

This Review provides insights into the nanoscale physicochemical and electrochemical processes in non-aqueous electrolyte solutions for lithium metal batteries and explores emerging research directions for accelerated and iterative approaches.

The authors share their perspective on tandem catalysis schemes applied in CO₂ electrolysis by defining and classifying microscopic and macroscopic site and cell tandem concepts pursued so far, providing a critical assessment and performance comparison against non-tandem systems.

This Review extends fluctuational electrodynamics, introduced originally to deal with radiation due to thermal fluctuations, to provide a unified quantitative theoretical framework that accounts for light emission processes in solids.

A time-resolved X-ray technique is developed to reconstruct the full spin dynamics in magnetic materials, enabling direct access to magnon eigenfunctions and revealing hidden non-Hermitian coupling mechanisms.

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.

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.

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.

Tunable polaritonic skyrmions and related topological textures are generated by non-local photonic metasurfaces, enabling reconfigurable nanoscale topologies on a chip.

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.

Nanoplastics research must embrace a chemistry‑led framework and integrate molecular‑level metrics to measure, classify, regulate, and mitigate environmental and health impacts.

Used thoughtfully and transparently, generative AI may support, but must not replace, human judgment, expertise, and critical thinking in peer review.

Electrodics is the branch of electrochemistry that studies electrode processes, such as charge dynamics, at their interface with the electrolyte. In this Comment, I argue that more emphasis should be placed on characterizing electrodics behaviour to facilitate both conceptual understanding and advancements in energy technologies.

The peer review system, as we know it now, is a relatively recent achievement. It will still evolve to better fit the needs of science and society in the future.

Nanoscience is now redefining how light can be controlled and processed on chip.