Yunxu Chen^#, Keli Liu^#, Jinxin Liu, Tianrui Lv, Bin Wei, Tao Zhang, Mengqi Zeng, Zhongchang Wang, Lei Fu*, "Growth of 2D GaN Single Crystals on Liquid Metals", J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2018, 140, 16392-16395. 

The two-dimensional (2D) GaN single crystals can be grown on liquid metals with urea as precursors via a surface-confined nitridation reaction strategy, which can pave the way to further explore the electronic and optical properties of GaN in the 2D limit.