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Shaping light at the nanoscale offers new opportunities to interrogate, control, and ultimately engineer complex biological and physical systems. In this presentation, a metaplasmonic structured-light framework will be introduced, which unifies advances in nanophotonics, super-resolution imaging, and functional biosensing to enable quantitative access to dynamic processes beyond the diffraction limit. At the core of this approach is the concept of metaplasmonic structured fields—optical fields engineered through the interplay of surface plasmon and custom illumination. These fields provide enhanced light–matter interaction and spatial control, enabling both sensitive detection and high-resolution imaging within a single platform. Building on this principle, axial interference speckle illumination-engineered structured illumination microscopy (AXIS-SIM) will be presented, a robust and experimentally accessible method that achieves near-isotropic super-resolution without complex optical architectures. By leveraging simple back-reflection–induced interference, AXIS-SIM enhances axial confinement while maintaining resilience to misalignment and sample-induced aberrations. To demonstrate the power of this approach, its integration with microfluidic gut–brain-axis-on-a-chip systems is explored for probing exosome-mediated intercellular communication. This platform enables real-time, multiscale observation of exosome dynamics—from their release and guided transport to nanoscale uptake in living cells—bridging macroscopic transport phenomena and single-particle interactions under physiologically relevant conditions. Such capabilities provide new insight into the role of extracellular vesicles in complex signaling networks. Beyond this specific application, the presented approach establishes a general paradigm for metaplasmonic structured-light engineering, with implications spanning biosensing, live-cell imaging, and nanomedicine. By merging physical field design with biological functionality, it opens a pathway toward next-generation optical tools for diagnostics, therapeutic screening, and the exploration of emergent phenomena at the nanoscale.

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