Nanomaterials: A Generic Synthetic Approach to Large‐Scale Pristine‐Graphene/Metal‐Nanoparticles Hybrids (Adv. Funct. Mater. 46/2013)

The homogeneous attachment of well-shaped metal nanoparticles (metal-NPs) on pristine graphene surfaces to construct pristine graphene/metal-NP hybrids is required for applications such as transparent electrodes and conductive composites. On page 5771, G. Meng and co-workers present an environmentally friendly generic synthetic approach to such large-scale hybrids by attaching pre-synthesized metal-NPs (silver nanocubes, yellow) on the pristine graphene surface (green hexagonal grid with purple joints) in ethanol by exploiting van der Waals interactions between the metal-NPs and the pristine graphene.