Nanostructured Materials for a Sustainable Future: Lighten the Olympia of the Flatland: Probing and Manipulating the Photonic Properties of 2D Transition‐Metal Dichalcogenides (Small 27/2015)

This issue's cover highlights the vital role that nanostructured materials could play in the sustainable future of our planet. In the past few years, various nanostructured materials (for example graphene, carbon nanotubes, nanorods assembled into arrays and films) have demonstrated exciting potential in applications related to energy, the environment, and communication, which could impact our future lives. This special issue was organized as a commemorative gift to Professor Hulin Li at Lanzhou University, for his 80th birthday.