The rate of increase of journal publications for various nanoscale morphologies are similar, with the rate of publication increasing between 2018 and 2022 by approximately 8%. Nanocrystals, nanobelts, and nanopowders, however, show distinctly lower increases in journal publication rates, and the acceleration in journal publication for them is roughly 0%/year. The reduced rate of publication on these morphologies may be due to limited methods for their synthesis. The rate of patent publications for nanoplatelets and nanoplates has increased significantly more than patent publications discussing other morphologies between 2018 and 2022. While nanoplatelets and nanoplates make up a smaller fraction of overall publications, the development of methods to prepare nanoplates and nanoplatelets and the presence of commercial suppliers is likely to be necessary for broader usage. Graphene nanoplates and platelets, if they can be used, are likely to be more easily handled and used in applications such as batteries and in composites than larger nanosheets (which may not be sufficiently robust to be formed into battery components) and are more readily available. 142 Figures 9 and S1 provide heat maps illustrating the relative frequencies of nanostructure compositions and the most common morphologies seen for a given nanostructure composition in journal and patent publications between 2003 and 2023. In both journals and patents, elements were the most prevalent substances used in sensors, and the nanomorphologies used depended strongly on material. Of the elemental substances found in journals and patents, gold and carbon were the most reported materials in nanostructures. Carbon nanostructured materials have been an important example of nanostructured materials, and their discovery has been a significant impetus to the development of other nanomaterials. CNTs are readily available and have both conducting and semiconducting forms; in addition, fullerenes are also available, with both C60 and C70 being useful in polymer-based solar cells as electron carriers. The availability of methods to selectively prepare and separate specific morphologies of nanoscale carbon is likely to increase its use in sensors relative to other substances because of its ubiquity and low cost. Gold, while expensive, is amenable to formation into nearly all of the common types of nanostructures, has known atomic structure, is conductive, and can absorb light; it is thus capable of responding to a variety of stimuli and is well-precedented and is a good material to build novel nanoscale sensing technologies. The ability to prepare a variety of nanostructures with carbon likely underlies their usage in sensors. In journals, silver nanostructures were reported frequently. Silver can form some of the same structures that gold can, has known atomic structures, is conductive, and is less expensive than gold, making it an attractive alternative to gold. Because of its ubiquitous use in computers, methods to prepare nanostructures of silicon are well-known.