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Revisiting principles, practices and scope of technologically relevant 2D materials

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Soon after realizing superbly important properties of few layer graphene and its derivatives, other layered materials have also received a great deal of interest in recent times, owing to their finite band gaps and layer-dependent optoelectronic responses. In this review, we discuss a variety of two-dimensional (2D) materials, highlighting fabrication routes already in practice and their technological relevance in a particular field, including photocatalysis, hydrogen evolution, sensing, actuation, and biomedical applications. Basically, layered materials processed via two widely accepted bottom-up and top-down approaches have been revisited. Because of large surface area, active reactive sites, tunable band gap etc., 2D systems are believed to deliberate their key performance in smart devices, from excellent electrodes to energy efficient candidates and from color switchable elements to high-precision biosensors. Given the importance of quality, reliability, and product cost realized in any commercial product, there exists ample scope to expand this frontier field of research for the benefit of society at large.

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We are thankful to the Inter-University Accelerator Centre (IUAC), New Delhi for the financial support (UFR-62312/2017-20). We would like to put in record our peers and colleagues who were directly or indirectly involved in our past experimental works supported through various project schemes. We also acknowledge ACS, AIP, RSC, Elsevier BV, and Springer Nature to permit us to resuse relevant artworks presented in this review. At the end, the permission received from the JMR Editor-in-Chief to present this review is gratefully acknowledged.

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Sarmah, H.J., Mohanta, D. Revisiting principles, practices and scope of technologically relevant 2D materials. Journal of Materials Research 36, 1961–1979 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1557/s43578-021-00211-8

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