Cosimo Anichini

TL;DR: The most enlightening recent advances in the field of chemical sensors based on atomically-thin 2DMs are reviewed and the opportunities and the challenges towards the realization of novel hybrid materials and sensing devices are discussed.

TL;DR: A novel green chemistry approach to assemble copper-nanowires/reduced-graphene-oxide hybrid coatings onto inorganic and organic supports that hold potential for being exploited as transparent electrodes in numerous optoelectronic applications such as solar cells, light-emitting diodes, and displays.

TL;DR: A novel generation of humidity sensors based on a simple chemical modification of rGO with hydrophilic moieties, i.e. tetraethylene glycol chains, exhibits an outstandingly improved sensing performance compared to pristine rGO, demonstrating the full potential of 2D materials when decorated suitably designed supramolecular receptors.

TL;DR: In this article , the latest developments and advances in the field of chemical sensors based on van der Waals heterostructures of 2D materials, with specific insight into the sensing mechanisms, are reviewed and future directions, challenges, and opportunities for the development of the next generation of (bio)chemical sensors with potential impact in environmental sciences and biomedical applications, and more specifically in bio-chemical defense, industrial safety, food and environmental surveillance, and medical (early) diagnostics, are discussed.

TL;DR: In this paper, the most important applications of these hybrids in the fields of sensing, water purification, energy storage, biomedical, (photo)catalysis, and opto(electronics) are also reviewed, with a special focus on the superior performances of these hybrid components compared to the individual, nonhybridized components.