Xiaodong Chen and ACS Nano team on nanoscience & nanotechnology research at the interfaces of chemistry, biology, materials science, physics, & engineering.

Washington, D.C.
Odysseus took 20 years to get home. Quarter-wave plates took a century. Hyperbolic MoOCl₂ ends the journey: a 65 nm flake, achromatic from 510 to 900 nm, ~270× thinner than quartz. Read it here 🔗 go.acs.org/eIF
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Fluorescence lifetime as a barcode: HaloTag-nanobody fusions give one dye four distinct lifetimes, imaging 8 protein targets in a single staining step on a standard confocal FLIM. #NanoFLex Read it here 🔗 go.acs.org/eE3
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How do spins influence lattice vibrations? In the quasi-2D vdW ferromagnet Fe4GeTe2, the spin reorientation drives an anomalous phonon renormalization, revealing strong spin–phonon coupling down to ~10 nm. Read it here 🔗 go.acs.org/eDs
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Lipoprotein corona does more than coat lipid nanoparticles: corona formation drives phase-selective reorganization of their internal architecture, with profound consequences for biological function] Read it here 🔗 go.acs.org/eD7
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Van der Waals step-barrier selectors deliver ultralow leakage, nonlinearity above 10 million, and 100-billion-cycle endurance, enabling scalable and energy-efficient 1S1R cross-point memory arrays. Read it here 🔗 go.acs.org/eBT
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We are now accepting nominations for early-career researchers to be highlighted in our Special Issue celebrating the 2027 Rising Stars in Nanoscience. 📅 Deadline: Wednesday, September 30 Nominate your Rising Star: go.acs.org/eBf
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Can geometry alone create thermoelectric junctions? Researchers show that nanoscale patterning locally engineers the Seebeck coefficient in a single 2D material—enabling junctionless thermoelectrics. Read it here 🔗 go.acs.org/eAV
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Researchers show that even when a batch of labeled particles appears uniform on average, individual nanoparticles can exhibit highly variable labeling patterns, a difference that remains undetected by standard bulk measurements. Read it here 🔗 go.acs.org/eA5
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What secrets are hidden inside human milk cells? This study integrates multimodal nanoscale imaging to reveal remarkable cellular diversity, ultrastructural features and distinct metabolic activities. Read it here 🔗 go.acs.org/eyu
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Prof. Zhang (Sun Yat-sen University) reports mesoscale ionic connectivity in deep eutectic electrolytes, enabling stable high-voltage solid-state batteries. Read it here 🔗 go.acs.org/ew6
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A new potassium-selective nanoelectrode platform, KINESIS, enables label-free monitoring of localized potassium dynamics in human iPSC-derived cardiomyocytes. Read it here 🔗 go.acs.org/euS
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DNA-functionalized SWCNT nanosensors power a dual-readout NIR neural interface, enabling synchronized fiber photometry and remote imaging for high-spatiotemporal-resolution dopamine mapping. @sycho_lab Read it here 🔗 go.acs.org/eun
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Electric fields don't just move electrons in 2D materials; they bend the lattice. This ACS Nano paper reveals piezoelectric- and carrier-stabilized degradation pathways in TMD electronics. Read it here 🔗 go.acs.org/eu9
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STAR is a personalized autologous cancer vaccine that activates STING and silences dendritic cell PD-L1 to boost durable antitumor T-cell immunity across tumor models. Read it here 🔗 go.acs.org/eu4
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Real-time atomic-scale insights into nanoparticle growth. Researchers combined deep learning- DSE framework extracts size, composition, and atomistic configurations directly from X-ray scattering data. Read it here 🔗 go.acs.org/etv
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