Phaedon Avouris is an IBM Fellow Emeritus. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Physical Society, the Institute of Physics, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the Materials Research Society, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Tony F. Heinz is a Professor of Applied Physics and Photon Science at Stanford University, California and the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. He previously worked at Columbia University, New York and IBM Research, USA. Tony Low is Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Minnesota. He previously worked at Yale University, Connecticut, Columbia University, New York, and the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, New York.

• 1. Graphene: basic properties Mikhail I. Katsnelson and Annalisa Fasolino; 2. Electrical transport in graphene: carrier scattering by impurities and phonons Jian-Hao Chen; 3. Optical properties of graphene Feng Wang and Sufei Shi; 4. Graphene mechanical properties C. DiMarco, R. Li, S. Rastogi, J. Hone and J. W. Kysar; 5. Vibrations in graphene Ado Jorio, Luiz Gustavo Cançado and Leandro M. Malard; 6. Thermal properties of graphene: from physics to applications Alexander A. Balandin; 7. Graphene plasmonics Frank Koppens, Mark B. Lundeberg, Marco Polini, Tony Low and Phaedon Avouris; 8. Electron optics with graphene p-n junctions James R. Williams; 9. Graphene electronics Chen Wang, Xidong Duan and Xiangfeng Duan; 10. Graphene: optoelectronic devices Thomas Mueller and Phaedon Avouris; 11. Graphene spintronics Aron W. Cummings, Sergio O. Valenzuela, Frank Ortmann and Stephan Roche; 12. Graphene-BN heterostructures Lei Wang, James Hone and Cory. R. Dean; 13. Controlled growth of graphene crystals by chemical vapor deposition: from solid metals to liquid metals Dechao Geng and Kian Ping Loh; 14. Electronic properties and strain engineering in semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides Rafael Roldán and Francisco Guinea; 15. Valley-spin physics in 2D semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides Hongyi Yu and Wang Yao; 16. Electrical transport in MoS2, a prototypical semiconducting TMDC Andras Kis; 17. Optical properties of TMD heterostructures Pasqual Rivera, Wang Yao and Xiaodong Xu; 18. TMDs - optoelectronic devices Thomas Mueller; 19. Large area synthesis Yumeng Shi and Lain-Jong Li; 20. Defects in two-dimensional materials Xiaolong Zou and Boris I. Yakobson; 21. Theoretical overview of black phosphorus Tony Low, Andrey Chaves, Wei Ji, Jesse Maassen and Traian Dumitrica; 22. Anisotropic properties of black phosphorus Yuchen Du, Zhe Luo, Han Liu, Xianfan Xu and Peide D. Ye; 23. Optical properties and optoelectronic applications of black phosphorus Andres Castellanos-Gomez and Mo Li; 24. Silicene, germanene and stanene Guy Le Lay, Eric Salomon and Thierry Angot; 25. Predictions of single-layer honeycomb structures from first-principles S. Ciraci and S. Cahangirov.

'This book, edited by the top researchers who have been working on atomically thin materials in the past decade, contains the essential contents of our current scientific understanding of this novel form of materials. The authors have compiled comprehensive and contemporary reviews on various topics ranging from fundamental science to engineering applications, providing an excellent textbook for students as well as references for experts in the research field.' Philip Kim, Harvard University, Massachusetts