With the profuse amount of two-dimensional (2D) materials discovered and the
improvements in their synthesis and handling, the field of 2D heterostructures has gained …

Rational design of 2D materials is crucial for the realization of their profound implications in
energy and environmental fields. The past decade has witnessed significant developments …

Conducting polymers (CPs) find applications in energy conversion and storage, sensors,
and biomedical technologies once processed into thin films. Hydrophobic CPs, like poly (3 …

Plasmas interacting with liquids enable the generation of a highly reactive interfacial liquid
layer due to a variety of processes driven by plasma-produced electrons, ions, photons, and …

Liquid interfacial plasmonic platform is emerging for new sensors, catalysis, and tunable
optical devices, but also promises an alternative for practical applications of surface …

Self-assembly at water–oil interfaces has been shown to be a cheap, convenient and
efficient route to obtain densely packed layers of plasmonic nanoparticles which have small …

The functionality of liquid–liquid interfaces formed between two immiscible electrolyte
solutions (ITIES) can be markedly enhanced by modification with supramolecular …

Recently, there has been a drive to design and develop fully tunable metamaterials for
applications ranging from new classes of sensors to superlenses among others. Although …

Surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) is capable of detecting a single molecule with
high specificity and has become a promising technique for rapid chemical analysis of …

Thin film technology is pervasive for many fields with high impact in our daily lives, which
makes processing materials such as thin films a very important subject in materials science …