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Inorganic Nanosheets and Nanosheet-Based Materials

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In this chapter, we introduce the applications of 2D inorganic nanosheets as effective building blocks for photofunctional hybrids with inorganic, organic, bio-, and polymer species. Among many nanostructured materials, the 2D inorganic nanosheets prepared by soft-chemical exfoliation reaction are quite unique in terms of unusually high anisotropy in their crystal structure/morphology, large surface area, and great diversity in their chemical compositions and physicochemical properties. These characteristics of 2D nanosheets render them very useful candidates for the synthesis of nanohybrid material with unique physicochemical properties. Novel hybridization strategies such as electrostatically derived reassembling, layer-by-layer deposition, and crystal growth on the surface sites of nanosheets have been intensively investigated as effective synthetic routes to functional nanosheet-based hybrid materials. This chapter puts an emphasis on the unique physicochemical properties and unexpected photofunctionalities of the nanosheet-based hybrid materials as results of synergistic strong coupling between the hybridized components.

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    Jayavant L. Gunjakar, In Young Kim & Seong-Ju Hwang

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Gunjakar, J.L., Kim, I.Y., Hwang, SJ. (2017). Photofunctional Nanosheet-Based Hybrids. In: Nakato, T., Kawamata, J., Takagi, S. (eds) Inorganic Nanosheets and Nanosheet-Based Materials. Nanostructure Science and Technology. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-56496-6_15

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