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This web focus features a selection of articles concentrating on materials that are formed inherently as two-dimensional layers, such as graphene, and on material structures assembled into layered architectures by processes such as layer-by-layer assembly or self-rolling.
Featured Articles from AM
Self-organized graphene crystal patterns Open
Bin Wu, Dechao Geng, Zhiping Xu, Yunlong Guo, Liping Huang, Yunzhou Xue, Jianyi Chen, Gui Yu and Yunqi Liu
NPG Asia Mater 5: e36; doi:10.1038/am.2012.68
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Subject Category: Nanomaterials
Tuning the properties of graphene using a reversible gas-phase reaction Open
Lin Gan, Jian Zhou, Fen Ke, Hang Gu, Danna Li, Zonghai Hu, Qiang Sun and Xuefeng Guo
NPG Asia Mater 4: e31; doi:10.1038/am.2012.58
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Subject Category: Organic, carbon-based and soft materials
Nanoscale assembly into extended and continuous structures and hybrid materials Open
Todd Emrick and Emily Pentzer
NPG Asia Mater 5: e43; doi:10.1038/am.2012.73
Subject Category: Nanomaterials
High-quality GaN films grown on chemical vapor-deposited graphene films Open
Kunook Chung, Suk In Park, Hyeonjun Baek, Jin-Seok Chung and Gyu-Chul Yi
NPG Asia Mater 4: e24; doi:10.1038/am.2012.45
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Subject Category: Inorganic, composite and hybrid materials
Forming nanomaterials as layered functional structures toward materials nanoarchitectonics Open
Katsuhiko Ariga, Qingmin Ji, Jonathan P Hill, Yoshio Bando and Masakazu Aono
NPG Asia Mater 4: e17; doi:10.1038/am.2012.30
Subject Category: Nanomaterials
Tunable and sizable band gap of single-layer graphene sandwiched between hexagonal boron nitride Open
Ruge Quhe, Jiaxin Zheng, Guangfu Luo, Qihang Liu, Rui Qin, Jing Zhou, Dapeng Yu, Shigeru Nagase, Wai-Ning Mei, Zhengxiang Gao and Jing Lu
NPG Asia Mater 4: e6; doi:10.1038/am.2012.10
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Subject Category: Nanomaterials
Strain-driven self-rolling of hybrid organic–inorganic microrolls: interfaces with self-assembled particles Open
Masahide Takahashi, Cristiana Figus, Luca Malfatti, Yomei Tokuda, Kazuyuki Yamamoto, Toshinobu Yoko, Takuya Kitanaga, Yasuaki Tokudome and Plinio Innocenzi
NPG Asia Mater 4: e22; doi:10.1038/am.2012.40
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Subject Category: Inorganic, composite and hybrid materials
Other Featured Articles from NPG
Colossal enhancement of spin–orbit coupling in weakly hydrogenated graphene
Jayakumar Balakrishnan, Gavin Kok Wai Koon, Manu Jaiswal, A. H. Castro Neto & Barbaros Özyilmaz
Nature Physics 9, 284-287 (2013); doi:10.1038/nphys2576
First Paragraph - Colossal enhancement of spin-orbit coupling in weakly hydrogenated graphene | Full Text - Colossal enhancement of spin–orbit coupling in weakly hydrogenated graphene | PDF | Supplementary information
Transferred wrinkled Al2O3 for highly stretchable and transparent graphene–carbon nanotube transistors
Sang Hoon Chae, Woo Jong Yu, Jung Jun Bae, Dinh Loc Duong, David Perello, Hye Yun Jeong, Quang Huy Ta, Thuc Hue Ly, Quoc An Vu, Minhee Yun, Xiangfeng Duan & Young Hee Lee
Nature Materials 12, 403-409 (2013); doi:10.1038/nmat3572
First Paragraph - Transferred wrinkled Al2O3 for highly stretchable and transparent graphene–carbon nanotube transistors | Full Text - Transferred wrinkled Al2O3 for highly stretchable and transparent graphene–carbon nanotube transistors | PDF - Transferred wrinkled Al2O3 for highly stretchable and transparent graphene–carbon nanotube transistors | Supplementary information
Damping pathways of mid-infrared plasmons in graphene nanostructures
Hugen Yan, Tony Low, Wenjuan Zhu, Yanqing Wu, Marcus Freitag, Xuesong Li, Francisco Guinea, Phaedon Avouris & Fengnian Xia
Nature Photonics 7, 394-399 (2013); doi:10.1038/nphoton.2013.57
Abstract - | Full Text - Damping pathways of mid-infrared plasmons in graphene nanostructures | PDF - Damping pathways of mid-infrared plasmons in graphene nanostructures | Supplementary information