At the Water’s Edge: Self-Assembling 2D Materials at a Liquid–Liquid Interface

Molecular 2D materials find immense applications in materials science, owing to their wide structural variety and easy controllability. Establishing a simple and efficient method for their synthesis is, therefore, important. Now, scientists from Japan present a simple method for synthesizing heterolayer coordination nanosheets, a promising 2D material, shedding light on how certain chemical coordination reactions occur at liquid–liquid interfaces. Their method could help develop novel 2D materials with applications in optoelectronic devices.