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. 👇📖

Proudly published today: “Wave analysis tools” in @methodsprimers.bsky.social. Learn how to choose the right methods for reliable, reproducible wave analyses across disciplines. Plus, meet WaLSA.tools, our open-source repository. Dedicated to Bernhard Fleck’s inspiring contributions 🌟

Waves are everywhere around us. From the sub-nano scale of atoms to the vastness of the universe, we receive signals that are superpositions of waves. This week's #Primer unveils the intricacies of wave #AnalysisTools shining a light on the best practices for #signalProcessing Check it out! 📖👇

We recently published a #Primer on laser-induced breakdown #spectroscopy 📖👉 go.nature.com/42czNDq 1/3

This week's Primer on alkyne-tag #Raman #imaging and #sensing it out! 👇📖

Our editor Joe is at the joint @keystonesymposia.bsky.social Imaging Biomolecules Across Scales and Machine Learning for Macromolecules symposia this week! An amazing start with talks on CryoEM, de novo protein design and more. Looking forward to chatting about these amazing methods!

Come and see us at the @springernature.com booth #101! We brought some of our #PrimeViews for the #ApsSummit25

#APSSummit25 starts today! Our editor Vittorio (@vitaita.bsky.social) will be there for the whole week. See you around!

When #science updates the tools of the trade, ancient crafts suddenly become advanced technologies!👨‍🎨👩‍🎨💡 Our cover image for the month is inspired by today's #Primer on #Multiphoton 3D #Lithography. 🌐 👉 www.nature.com/nrmp/

#MultiPhoton 3D #lithography is a tool for the fabrication of complex structures at the #micro and even #nano scale. Need to get yourself started on the #method? Check out our Primer out today 😀 📖👇

Thinking cross-disciplinary #physics methods, microscopy is a must. Even more so if using #StructuredLight for it! 👇Check out our #PrimeView on STED microscopy👇

Getting ready for next week's @apsphysics.bsky.social Global Physics Summit! Our editor Vittorio will be there representing the journal. Come and talk to us! Keep an eye out this week for #physics highlights from publications in our journal. 👇A thread of #PrimeViews👇

This week's PrimeView is inspired by the Primer on computational #ProteinDesign out yesterday. Using current knowledge on the physics and chemistry of molecules, machine learning tools can be used to unlock doors to new worlds of proteins. 📖👇

For this week's Primer: #computational #proteindesign is used for protein engineering but also for de novo protein design. Read more about it in our latest Primer out today!

Our cover image for this month, inspired from the recently published Primer on #PhageTherapy: go.nature.com/3XfHpmU

From the Anderson lab, Oblique line scan microscopy achieves nanoscale spatial and sub-millisecond temporal resolution across a large FOV, enabling robust single-molecule biophysical measurements and tracking in both cells and solution. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Check out the PrimeView from our latest Primer article on Ultra-fast optical time-domain transformation techniques!

Ultra-fast optical time-domain transformation techniques encode spatial and spectral information from ultra-short pulses into the time domain. Read more about it in this week's Primer!

Come join colleagues from Springer Nature at "Love Methods Week" next week! go.sn.pub/7hif3g #LoveMethods25 @naturemethods.bsky.social @methodsprimers.bsky.social @natprot.bsky.social @protocolsio.bsky.social