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Exfoliating the inorganics

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A versatile method for the production of sheets of inorganic compounds with atomic thickness has been demonstrated.

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Figure 1: An experimental route towards the fabrication of inorganic nanosheets and macroscopic films made of such nanosheets.

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  1. Dmitri Golberg is in the International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Namiki 1-1, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 3050044, Japan.,

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Golberg, D. Exfoliating the inorganics. Nature Nanotech 6, 200–201 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2011.57

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