A lack of guiding principles limits the preparation of two-dimensional (2D) materials prepared by a solution-phase growth route. Now, a general qualitative model for 2D material growth is proposed and applied to fabricate more than 30 nanomaterials, allowing 2D growth to be controlled by only tuning the reaction concentration or temperature.
- Zongkun Chen
- Ralf Schmid
- Helmut Cölfen