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2D materials: to graphene and beyond

R. Mas-Ballesté, C. Gómez-Navarro, J. Gómez-Herrero and F. Zamora

Nanoscale, 2010, Advance Article, DOI: C0NR00323A, Review

This review is an attempt to illustrate the different alternatives in the field of 2D materials. Graphene seems to be just the tip of the iceberg, and the discovery of alternative 2D materials is starting to show the rest of this iceberg. The review comprises the current state-of-the-art of the vast literature in concepts and methods already known for isolation and characterization of graphene, and rationalizes the quite disperse literature in other 2D materials such as metal oxides, hydroxides and chalcogenides, and metal–organic frameworks.

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Hydrothermal transformation from Au core–sulfide shell to Au nanoparticle-decorated sulfide hybrid nanostructures

Zhihong Bao, Zhenhua Sun, Manda Xiao, Linwei Tian and Jianfang Wang
Nanoscale, 2010, 2, 1650-1652

Au nanoparticle-decorated sulfide nanostructures with morphologies similar to those of sea cucumbers arehydrothermally synthesized with Au nanorods and metal thiobenzoates

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Complex ZnO nanotree arrays with tunable top, stem and branch structures

F. Zhao, J.-G. Zheng, X. Yang, X. Li, J. Wang, F. Zhao, K. S. Wong, C. Liang and M. Wu

Nanoscale, 2010, 2, 1674-1683

Suggesting simple strategies to rationally design novel andhierarchical nanostructures and their arrays.