Nanosheets zeolite is a brand new type of pseudo 2-dimensional zeolite, possessing distinctive growth trend in the (010) crystal surface and hierarchical micro-mesoporous texture, which has triggered an immense interest in the development of nanosheets and its application. The specific morphology can be obtained and dominantly controlled by using multi-quaternary ammonium surfactants as the structure directing agent. Due to its predominant micro-mesoporous property, optimized surface acidity and lower restriction of the diffusion of macro-molecule with respect to conventional bulk zeolite, nanosheets zeolite has tremendous application potential in adsorption and catalysis fields. This review summarizes the advances in the synthesis and the characterization of ZSM-5 zeolite nanosheets with novel morphology. Furthermore, nanosheets zeolite exhibits premium advantages in many applications. Some different reactions that MFI nanosheets zeolite has been applied to are discussed in detail, including methanol conversion to hydrocarbons and macro-molecules involved reaction, i.e. Beckman rearragement reactions. Additionally, newly developed metal-modified nanosheets zeolite has been applied to isomerization, hydroxylation reaction and the epoxidation of olefins etc. Although nanosheets zeolite possesses a large number of strong points compared with conventional zeolite, there is still a long way to go for MFI nanosheets zeolite in improving the synthesis in a more facile/economical way as well as expanding the applications. The outlook section cast great expectation on nanosheets for enlightening the innovative design of other materials.

Contents
1 Introduction
2 Synthesis of nanosheets zeolites by quaternary ammoniums
2.1 MFI nanosheets zeolite
2.2 Nanosheets zeolite with two different framework intergrown
2.3 Hierarchical zeolite with other kinds of topologies
3 Properties of MFI nanosheets zeolite
3.1 2-Dimensional growth orientation
3.2 Ordered mesoporosity
3.3 Acid properties
3.4 Adsorption properties
4 Application of MFI nanosheet zeolite
4.1 Methanol conversion to hydrocarbons
4.2 Beckman rearrangement reaction
4.3 Applications over the metal-modified MFI nanosheets
5 Conclusion and outlook