1 Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of North Texas Denton USA diana.berman@unt.edu.
2 Division of Microtechnology and Nanotechnology, Institute of Metrology and Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Mechatronics, Warsaw University of Technology św. A. Boboli 8 02-525 Warsaw Poland agnieszka.jastrzebska@pw.edu.pl.
3 Dipartimento di Neuroscienze, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Largo Francesco Vito 1 Rome 00168 Italy massimiliano.papi@unicatt.it.
4 Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCSS Rome 00168 Italy.
5 Department of Chemical Engineering, Biotechnology and Materials (FCFM), Universidad de Chile Santiago Chile arosenkranz@ing.uchile.cl.
Diana Berman, Agnieszka Jastrzebska, Massimiliano Papi, and Andreas Rosenkranz introduce the RSC Advances themed issue on 2D materials and their applications.