From @milespadgett.bsky.social and team, is a #Primer on #quantumimaging using entangled photon pairs. ➰ Different modalities, such as ghost imaging and heralded imaging, can surpass the resolution of classical imaging methods. 👻🐈‍⬛📸 www.nature.com/articles/s43...

In this week's #Primer, discover how fluid force microscopy #FluidFM allows for precise manipulation and analysis at the nanoscale by combining AFM and microfluidic probes. ➿💧 www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Day 🔟 of the NRMP 5th Anniversary Highlights 🧁 Last, but not least, we chatted with @aronwalsh.github.io to learn more about the trends, opportunities, and challenges in using #AI for material design. 🌟 www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Our #Primer this week is on #electrophoreticdeposition, a method used to produce thin films from colloidal materials with electrode tuning. ⏺️🔋 Thanks to researchers @boccaccini-lab.bsky.social and SUS Tech for contributing to this piece! www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Day 9️⃣ of the NRMP 5th Anniversary Highlights 🧁 How and when are new chemical symbols developed and disseminated? We chatted with Brynn Hibbert from @iupac.org to learn more standardizing chemical symbols and nomenclature ✍️🗞️ www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Day8️⃣ of the NRMP 5th Anniversary Highlights 🧁 In each Primer, our authors must write on the reproducibility and data deposition available for their method. We explored this area further in a Q&A with Marcus Munafo of the UK Reproducibility Network 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Day 7️⃣ of the NRMP 5th Anniversary Highlights 🧁 As solar photovoltaics (PVs) are scaled-up at increasing rates, how should the sustainability of solar energy be addressed? This Comment provides practical steps for designing PVs with circularity in mind.🔆♻️ www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Day 6️⃣ of the NRMP 5th Anniversary Highlights 🧁 Continuing to address the advancement of #AI in methods, this Q&A discusses concerns such as quality, transparency, and reproducibility in AI-driven research. www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Day 5️⃣ of the NRMP 5th Anniversary Highlights 🧁 What's rugged, portable, and analytically precise? A Raman spectrometer, of course! This comment discusses how Raman spectroscopy can be adapted for use in extreme environments, like space. 🪐 www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Day 4️⃣ of the NRMP 5th Anniversary Highlights 🧁 With the rising influence of #AI, how should researchers best communicate their findings and what are the best avenues for the general public to read these results?

Day3️⃣ of the NRMP 5th Anniversary Highlights🧁 From @audreyalejandro.bsky.social at @lsemethodology.bsky.social comes a topic that everyone can reflect on, #reflexivity. Learn more about your bias and applying these realizations to your research 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Day2️⃣ of the NRMP 5th Anniversary Highlights 🧁 @clancyatheart.bsky.social and @masi-lab.bsky.social discuss the emerging role of digital twins, combined with AI, for biomedical research that can inform preclinical decisions. www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Day 1️⃣ of the NRMP 5th Anniversary Highlights 🧁 Joshua Patterson provides tips for designing undergraduate research projects. 🎓🏫 When undergraduates have limited time and expertise, how do you craft a project that will keep them engaged and successful? www.nature.com/articles/s43...

🔭 What’s the future of reflexivity & how do we put it into practice? New article in @natrevmethodsprimers.nature.com I argue for three priorities 1) evaluation criteria 2) studying reflexivity as a socio-cognitive phenomenon 3) adapting it across research traditions OA: rdcu.be/eX79L

This month, we are celebrating 5 years of Nature Reviews Methods Primers with a variety of Comments and Q&As that address recent advancements in methods!

This week, check out a new #Primer on #cryogenic electron tomography (cryo-ET) used for visualizing 3D structures of cells with sub-nanometer resolution. 🔬🧫 www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Explore the potential of #lidar in our latest #Primer, an active remote sensing technology that can consistently measure distances by emitting light from a laser source and recording the signal reflected from the target. www.nature.com/articles/s43586-025-00446-3

Our newest #Primer is on #spectroelectrochemistry (SEC), a method for studying redox-active interfaces in a UV-Vis spectral window. With this technique, redox stoichiometries and kinetics can be determined and analyzed. 🌈🔋https://www.nature.com/articles/s43586-025-00445-4

This week #Primer is on frontal #polymerization, a self-sustaining, energy-efficient method for polymerization! This technique is used in radical-induced cationic frontal polymerization and frontal ring-opening metathesis polymerization. Check it out here: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

This week's #Primer is on #ptychography, a lens-free approach to high-resolution imaging across wavelengths, from electron to visible light. Learn about the theory, reconstruction algorithms, and applications in life and materials science here! 💡📏 www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Our #Primer this week is on #atomic layer #deposition (or #ALD) a method for creating thin films with controlled thicknesses by depositing materials one atomic layer at a time. Check it out here: 👇⚛️📽️🟰 www.nature.com/articles/s43...

If you'd like to learn more about #Fouriertransform, after reading the #macromolecularcrystallography Primer, check out this #Primer, highlighting the theory behind the Fourier transform and its applications in mass spectrometry, NMR spectroscopy, and IR spectroscopy. www.nature.com/articles/s43...

This week's #Primer features a breadth of knowledge and tips for interpreting the diffraction data from #macromolecularcrystallography. There's also an in-depth discussion about the impact of resolution and errors in the Fourier Transform for crystallography. ↘️💠↗️

A new #Primer this week covers #ultrafast #TEM - a technique that femtosecond resolution of coherent phenomena in #quantum materials. ⚡⏩ Check out it's variety of setups and applications here: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

In many chemistry articles, authors will claim that a process is "greener" than conventional syntheses - but what does that claim really mean? Our newest #Comment discusses green chemistry metrics and the future for designing sustainable chemical reactions. 📗🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s43...

From @paradisireslab.bsky.social and team, we have a #Primer this week on #flowbiocatalysis - a technique that combines the power of enzyme catalysis with the efficiency of flow chemistry! 🧬🧪🫗 www.nature.com/articles/s43...

This week's #Primer is about metal-organic chemical vapour deposition, a useful technique for tailoring the growth of 2D materials, such as transition metal dichalcogenides and other heterostructures. 📈🧑‍🔬📐 Check it out here! www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Check out this week's #Primer on #Time-domainthermoreflectance a pump-probe technique for measuring heat transfer, including thermal conductance, in materials like thin films or semiconductors. 🌡️♨️ www.nature.com/articles/s43...

This week's #Primer from @xiaojixu.bsky.social and co-authors is on #KelvinProbeForceMicroscopy, an AFM-based technique for measuring electrical properties of materials. Check it out here! 👇📖⚡🔨 www.nature.com/articles/s43...

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Happy to share this week's #Primer from a team of authors at @cshlnews.bsky.social and beyond on #DiversityOrientedClicking! This synthesis technique uses click-chemistry hubs for designing molecular probes and new drugs. Check it out here 👇🧑‍🔬👨‍🔬👩‍🔬

#SurfacePlasmonResonanceSensing is a label-free method for measuring molecular interactions based on changes in refractive index at an interface. ⚡🪞📐Check out the newest #Primer here 👇!

This week's #Primer features #AcousticTweezers - a method that uses ultrasound waves to manipulate particles and cells without physical contact! Check out the technique and it's applications in biomedicine here: 👋⚒️〰️

Check out our new comment highlighting the challenges and opportunities for reusing electronic waste in the development of new materials. 🔋🪫🗑️♻️ www.nature.com/articles/s43...

This week's #Primer is on #flowchemistry, a method for conducting chemical reactions through tubing to increase efficiency and yields. The team of authors, led by Duncan Browne at @ucl.ac.uk, wish to dedicate this article to Professor Steven V Ley CBE FMedSc FRS on the celebration of his 80th year.

This week's #Primer is on colloidal #quantumdots, semiconductor nanocrystals with applications in a variety of #optoelectronic devices like LEDs, solar cells, and photodetectors. Check it out here 👇📖 www.nature.com/articles/s43...

This week's #Primer on size-exclusion #chromatography with multi-angle static light scattering, a technique for separating macromolecules and estimate molar masses of their components. Check it out here 👇📖

This week's #Primer is on optical coherence #elastography. A technique that uses OCT scans of samples under a mechanical load and use them to asses their elasticity. You can find it here📖👇

Inspired from the #Primer out today on #Photoluminescence microscopy, here's our #Cover image of the month! How many #optoelectronic materials can you name?

#Photoluminescence microscopy is the technique of this week's #Primer. The properties of #optoelectronic materials are characterised with this method, improving our understanding of their applicability. It's out today! Check it out📖👇

This week's #Primer is on Photo-induced #forcemicroscopy - a technique stemming from #AFM that detects optically induced forces between a probe and a sample, with sub-nm resolution. Check it out here!👇👇

This week's #Primer is on Ball #milling for #mechanochemical reactions. This methods is used to create chemical products from physical collisions of the reactants - without the need of a solvent. Check it out!📖👇

Happy #InternationalDayofLight2025 everyone! 🎉🥳🔬 To celebrate #IDOL2025, we decided to gather all our #Primers on light-based technologies in a Collection. Can you guess why the celebration happens on this day? The Collection's cover gives you a hint😉 📖👉 www.nature.com/collections/... 1/5

Neurons signals and their propagation are key for brain functioning. With this month's #cover — inspired from our latest #Primer on in vivo #MEAs — we're highlighting brainwaves and the development of neural interfaces.

With #microelectrode arrays (MEAs) you can measure action potentials from individual neurons in vivo, and study brain functions in awake animals. Read more about it in our latest #Primer! 📖👇 1/2

Our latest #Primer is on #x-ray circular dichroism. Thanks to the x-ray polarization, this technique can probe the #spin and #orbital #angularmomenta of materials. 👇📖 1/2

Next week, our editor Ashley will be attending the Gordon Research Conference on Self-Assembly and Supramolecular Chemistry! She's looking forward to seeing the cutting-edge MOF research and learning about new synthetic strategies. ⛰️🧪🛠️

A new #Primer on droplet-based bioprinting is now available! 💧🖨️ This method uses biomaterials to fabricate 3D structures for tissue engineering, single-cell studies, and other biomedical applications! 📖👇

Do you ever look for hidden #patterns in water rings? Our #cover image for this month is inspired by the interference patterns between waves🌊. This concept is at the base of #iSCAT, the technique from this week's #Primer.

The #Primer out today is on interferometric scattering #miscroscoy. By analysing interference patterns, this label-free technique enables detection of nanoscale objects. 👇📖