The research of Prof. Zbořil’s is focused on advanced nanotechnologies, low-dimensional materials and single-atom engineering towards applications in biomedicine, water treatment, catalysis, energy, and environmental technologies, with other application strategies being developed. Examples of his main achievements include the development of the world’s thinnest insulator based on fluorographene (Small 2010), room-temperature organic magnets based on functionalized graphene (Nature Communications 2018), and the first two-dimensional carboxylic acid named graphene acid (ACS Nano 2017). Furthermore, his team contributed to, for example, the discovery of the mechanism behind the bacterial resistance to silver nanoparticles, alongside a way to overcome it (Nature Nanotechnology 2019), the development of 1D non-metallic conductors (Nature Nanotechnology 2020), the first iron-based heterogeneous catalyst for hydrogenation of nitriles (Nature Catalysis 2022) or novel plasmonic catalysts for selective reduction of nitroarenes under visible light (Nature Nanotechnology 2022; Nature Nanotechnology 2023).