Inorganic Nanosheets and Nanosheet-Based Materials

Part I. Fundamental Aspects of Inorganic Nanosheets

1. Materials Chemistry of Inorganic Nanosheets—Overview and History
Teruyuki Nakato, Jun Kawamata, Shinsuke Takagi

2. Clay Minerals as Natural Nanosheets
Robert A. Schoonheydt, Yasushi Umemura

3. Synthetic Nanosheets from Ion-Exchangeable Layered Solids
Teruyuki Nakato

4. Graphene: Synthesis and Functionalization
Tomo-o Terasawa, Koichiro Saiki

5. Chalcogenide Nanosheets: Optical Signatures of Many-Body Effects and Electronic Band Structure
Ivan Verzhbitskiy, Goki Eda

6. Inorganic–Organic Interactions
Tomohiko Okada, Makoto Ogawa

7. Hybridization with Polymers
Yoshiaki Fukushima, Kenji Tamura

8. Colloidal Nanosheets
Nobuyoshi Miyamoto, Yutaka Ohsedo, Teruyuki Nakato

Part II. Functions and Applications of the Inorganic Nanosheets

9. Adsorbents Derived from Layered Solids
Tomohiko Okada, Makoto Ogawa

10. Sensors
Takuya Fujimura, Ryo Sasai

11. Energy Storage Systems
Wataru Sugimoto, Dai Mochizuki

12. Graphene Oxide Based Electrochemical System for Energy Generation
Kazuto Hatakeyama, Shinya Hayami, Yasumichi Matsumoto

13. Nanosheet-Based Electronics
Minoru Osada

14. Photoenergy Conversion
Yohei Ishida, Shinsuke Takagi

15. Photofunctional Nanosheet-Based Hybrids
Jayavant L. Gunjakar, In Young Kim, Seong-Ju Hwang

16. Efficient Photocatalytic Systems Integrated with Layered Materials Promoters
Yusuke Ide

17. Semiconductor Nanosheets
Shintaro Ida

18. Hybrids with Functional Dyes
Juraj Bujdák

19. Optical Materials
Yasutaka Suzuki, Jun Kawamata

20. Chirality and Its Application
Hisako Sato, Akihiko Yamagishi

21. Applications of Nanoclay-Containing Polymer Nanocomposites
Jayita Bandyopadhyay, Suprakas Sinha Ray

22. Biological Materials
Challa Vijaya Kumar

Keywords: Chemistry, Nanochemistry, Nanotechnology, Nanoscale Science and Technology, Inorganic Chemistry, Polymer Sciences