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Herein, we discuss the features, applications, open challenges and prospects of plasmonics with various classes of two-dimensional semiconductors “beyond graphene”.

Go nano, go active: the performance of catalysts for electrocatalytic CO₂ reduction can be improved by a range of nanoengineering strategies. Through these strategies, the catalyst's morphology, electronic structures and surrounding environment are finely tuned on a nanoscale.

This article gives a comprehensive review of plasmonic metal–semiconductor photocatalysts and photoelectrochemical cells with an emphasis on materials design.

Extracellular Vesicles (EVs) are gaining interest as central players in liquid biopsies, with potential applications in diagnosis, prognosis and therapeutic guidance in most pathological conditions.

Gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) provide excellent platforms for the development of colorimetric biosensors as they can be easily functionalised, displaying different colours depending on their size, shape and state of aggregation.

In this review, we first summarize the recent progress in MoS₂/TiO₂-based nanomaterials for applications in photocatalysis and rechargeable batteries.

Hierarchical CoP nanosheet@microwire array on nickel foam (CoP NS@MW/NF) was developed as water oxidation electrocatalyst, with overpotential of 296 mV to drive 100 mA cm⁻² in 1.0 M KOH.

High-resolution, large-scale printing of highly conductive AgNWs for flexible and stretchable electronics using EHD printing is presented. The printed patterns show the smallest line width of 45 μm and electrical conductivity as high as ∼5.6 × 10⁶ S m⁻¹. AgNW-based wearable heaters and ECG electrodes are fabricated.

Ultra-small NiFe₂O₄ hollow particles, with the diameter and wall thickness of only 6 and 1.8 nm, respectively, were anchored on a graphene surface, showing an excellent electromagnetic wave absorption property.

Pickering emulsions stabilised with nanomaterials provide routes to a range of functional macroscopic assemblies.

We show here that oxidised nanodiamonds show improved biocompatibility compared to graphitic nanodiamonds when applied in living cells.

Synchrotron soft X-ray nano-imaging and spectromicroscopy reveals iron and calcium biomineralization in Alzheimer's disease amyloid plaques.

The p-i-n structure for perovskite solar cells has recently shown significant advantages in minimal hysteresis effects, and scalable manufacturing potential using low-temperature solution processing.

A visible light-induced double Z-scheme charge transfer mechanism for H₂ generation and Cr(VI) reduction over the Cu-MoO₃/g-C₃N₄ composite.

Lateral and flexural thermal transport processes in monolayer and bilayer C₃N are systematically investigated using MD simulation.

An X-shaped metasurface is proposed to achieve full, continuous, and broadband control of both the amplitude and phase of visible light.

Co₂P quantum dots embedded in N, P dual-doped carbon on carbon cloth, as hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) electrode, present superb activity and stability.

A porous Co₉S₈ nanosheet array on Ni foam can be realized via a facile 2D ZIF templated method.

A three-dimensional hierarchical porous carbon is synthesized via a facile chemical activation route with garlic skin as the precursor and KOH as the activating agent.

The subtle interaction between a tip and an atomically thin graphene membrane in tunneling contact can be used for nonindenting force spectroscopy. This was applied to a freestanding single layer of graphene and permitted the detection of Young's modulus.

High capacitance (13.2 μA h cm⁻²) double layer hybrid supercapacitor consisting of reduced graphene oxide/Fe doped Li₄Ti₅O₁₂ (rGO/LTO) and graphite.

Taking advantage of the cooperation between the excitonic transition of the CsPbCl₃ perovskite NC host and the intrinsic emissions from Bi³⁺ and Mn²⁺ ions, white light emission was developed in the codoped CsPbCl₃ NCs.

The curvature and edge effects on ORR activities of both isolated B/N doped and BN codoped carbon nanomaterials are investigated.

A detailed study is presented of in vivo protein corona formation on anisotropic gold nanoparticles, after blood circulation in mice.

3D interconnected porous carbon nanosheets/carbon nanotubes as the host for lithium–sulfur batteries are synthesized via a simple one-pot pyrolysis strategy.