Dear Colleagues,

Ever since the Nobel Prize was awarded in 2010 to Andre Geim and Kostya Novoselov “for groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material graphene”, the number of research contributions including graphene in one way or another has grown exponentially, taking many different directions in search of new promising applications of these fascinating two-dimensional (2D) materials.

Although there are now an increasing number of 2D layers that are not produced from graphene or graphite, there is still a rather wide group of materials that can be related to graphene because of the presence of polyaromatic units or because of the reaction of the original substance with several functional groups that eventually lead to the modification of the structure in different scales. In the first case, among others, the family of graphynes is now very popular, and also holey graphenes, in which holes or pores of different dimensions and geometries can be tailored by removing a large amount of atoms or “rings” from the 2D plane. The presence of the pores together with the possible presence of different functional groups makes these porous derivatives very attractive for several applications, ranging from electronic and energy storage to their use as filters at the molecular level or as an interesting tool for molecular recognition.

If we include multilayered compounds, graphene flakes, and carbon nanotubes, the research possibilities offered by what we can consider in one way or another nanoporous derivatives of graphene is very large, and we welcome articles, communications, and reviews that can be included under all these types of exciting nanoporous materials, together with their description, fabrication or applications in any field.

Dr. José Campos-Martínez
Guest Editor

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• Nanoporous graphene
• Molecular transport
• Molecular sieving
• Storage in nanomaterials
• energy materials
• Nanomaterials in bioapplications
• Synthesis and characterization nanoporous graphenes
• Molecular recognition and analysis.