With plenary talks to provide overviews of some of the major progress made in key areas in our field, invited speakers highlighting ground-breaking advances, and contributed talks spanning the breadth that our field encompasses, we hope you will find ICN+T an ideal venue to share and learn about advances in nanoscience and technology. We have selected seven cross-cutting areas to highlight as special focus topics where recent advances have provided new insight and new future directions, including a special category to share how many in our community have taken nano into the field to address challenges brought by COVID-19:

• EM fields & SPM: breaking speed limits and shedding light
• Artificially designed lattices: self-assembly and atomic manipulation
• 2D materials and non-trivial topological phases
• Materials x Quantum Information: qubit materials and devices, and applications of quantum computing for materials discovery
• Energy storage and harvesting: materials, devices and characterization
• Single molecule biosensing: concepts, devices and technologies
• Small lessons from COVID-19: nano-platforms for disease detection, intervention and prevention