Within the last decade, exfoliated graphene, an all-surface material with extraordinary physical properties, initiated an extremely fruitful research topic in nanostructure science, namely research on two-dimensional (2D) solids. In the meantime, the family of  2D materials has been extended by hexagonal boronnitride, transition metal dichalcogenides, silicene, etc. Besides the exploration of those materials' fundamental properties, there is an emerging research community studying the formation of nanostructures on them.

The aim of this specialized IUVSTA workshop is to discuss the potential of two-dimensional crystallites and ultrathin solids as templates for nanostructure arrays of metallic, magnetic, semiconducting, organic, and biological materials.