Unique advantages of 2D inorganic nanosheets in exploring high-performance electrocatalysts: Synthesis, application, and perspective

Synergetic Hybridization Effect of Homogeneously Mixed Inorganic and Graphene Nanosheets on the Photocatalytic Activity of Semiconductor

“…[ 38–43 ] The current study highlights that homogeneously mixed conductive metal oxide and rGO NSs can be used as useful hybridization matrices for optimizing the photocatalytic activity of hybridized semiconductors. Considering that the hybridization with conductive NS has also been widely used for improving the electrocatalyst and electrode functionalities of inorganic solids, [ 44–47 ] the present synthetic strategy can offer useful methodology to explore novel efficient hybrid‐type electrocatalysts and electrodes. Our current project is to hybridize homogeneously mixed conductive inorganic/rGO NSs with diverse electrode and electrocatalyst materials for optimize their functionalities.…”

Bottom-up supramolecular assembly in two dimensions

“… 1 In the two following decades, other covalent 2D architectures 2 and inorganic allotropes were developed, such as elemental 2D films 3 and metal–organic frameworks, 4 amongst others. 5 The intriguing properties of different 2D molecular systems are currently attracting great attention towards tackling important societal challenges such as green energy sourcing, 6 new-generation catalysts 7 and biomedical technologies. 8 Alternatively to static covalent and inorganic nanomaterials, supramolecular 2D assemblies allow controlled structural and functional reconfiguration.…”

Current advances and challenges in nanosheet-based wearable power supply devices

“…To meet all these requirements, nanosheets, a kind of two-dimensional (2D) nanomaterial with excellent physical and mechanical properties including ultra-thin thickness, high flexibility, stretchability, and excellent adhesion have triggered great research enthusiasm and become the optimal material for wearable power supply device due to these remarkable characteristics ( Kim et al., 2021 ; Liang et al., 2018 ; Nie et al., 2020 ; Zhong et al., 2019 ). Especially, the extremely large surface-to-volume ratio of the nanosheets provides the miniaturization of wearable power supply devices and greatly increases the capability of power storage and supply for wearable power supply devices ( Jin et al., 2020 ; Zhou et al., 2021 ) considering that nanosheets bring numerous electrocatalytic sites and thus catalyze the electrochemical reaction at the electrode. A large number of nanosheets, e.g., graphene analogues (GA), including graphene oxide (GO) nanosheets, reduced graphene oxide (rGO) nanosheets, and graphdiyne nanosheets, and transition metal element nanosheets, including MoSe 2 nanosheets, Ru-Ni nanosheets, MoS 2 nanosheets, ZnO nanosheet, and organic nanosheets like PLLA nanosheets, have been produced by researchers ( Careta et al., 2021 ; Guo et al., 2019 ; Liu et al., 2021 ; Yang et al., 2019a , 2019b ; Yu et al., 2019 ; Zhang et al., 2018b , 2021 ) since the first-developed nanosheets, graphene, was reported in 2004 ( Novoselov et al., 2004 ).…”