Last Friday, August 31st, more than 100 scientists and engineers from 7 European countries, Israel, China and US attended the 6th dresden Nanoanalysis Symposium, hosted by Fraunhofer IKTS in Dresden. This year, the symposium was supported for the first time also by the European Materials Research Society (E-MRS) and the European Materials Characterization Cluster (EMCC). The abstract book is available at the following web pages: https://www.nanoanalytik.fraunhofer.de/en.html https://www.nanoanalytik.fraunhofer.de/en/events/6DNS.html . Within 14 exceptional keynotes and invited talks, with 44 poster...