1 Institut Lumière Matière UMR 5306, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, CNRS, Univ Lyon, F69100, Villeurbanne, France. rodolphe.antoine@univ-lyon1.fr.
2 Tianjin Key Laboratory of Molecular Optoelectronic Sciences, Key Laboratory of Organic Integrated Circuits, Ministry of Education, Department of Chemistry, School of Science, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300072, P. R. China. qfyao@tju.edu.cn.
3 Engineering Research Center in Biomaterials, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610065, P. R. China. kuiyu@scu.edu.cn.
The Guest Editors of Communications Chemistry’s Atomically precise nanochemistry Collection discuss the importance of atomic precision in nanochemistry research, and highlight some of the field’s most pressing challenges.