The subject presents an overview of attractive layered materials, which in the vast majority are derived from a 2D nanometric parent layer. I am adding new types of organic layered materials to the large set of inorganic layered materials. In the field of inorganic materials, vdW materials are dominated by 2D materials or ionic bonds. These include carbonaceous and aluminosilicate natural materials, but also synthetic hydrotalcites, nitrides and carbides - MXenes, layered sulfides, selenides, tellurides and oxides, or black phosphorus. In the area of organic layered materials, MOF and COF networks dominate. Variations in the synthesis or exfoliation to 2D materials are essential for each type to obtain the desired properties of the nanometric 2D object and application.
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Nicolosi, V., Chhowalla, M., Kanatzidis, M. G., Strano, M. S., & Coleman, J. N. (2013). Liquid exfoliation of layered materials. Science, 340(6139), 1226419.
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