This 2-day meeting adresses itself to local and European actors active in the growth of two-dimensional materials and their heterostructures.
This 2-day meeting adresses itself to local and European actors active in the growth of two-dimensional materials and their heterostructures. It aims to discuss common research strategies, at Paris-Saclay university and beyond, for the synthesis, characterisation, and valorisation of 2D material heterostructures with controlled physical properties.
Contrary to bulk materials, the bottom-up approach of nanotechnologies allows one to tune the physical behaviour of materials away significantly from their intrinsic properties. Technological progress achieved over the last 15 years to manipulate materials at the nanoscale have opened the possibility to realise nano-heterostructures that combine, modify, and excite nanomaterials' properties. The possibility to concieve and implement a desired physical property by shaping materials at the nanoscale thereby opens completely new prospects.
Nanomaterials based on sp2 hybridized carbon, such as 1D nanotubes (SWNT) or 2D graphene, have imposed themselves as the basis of a set of new classes of 1D and 2D materials, the physical properties of which represent a scientific and technological breakthrough with respect to their 3D parent materials. An impressive number of major scientific contributions has shed light on their remarkable electronic, optical, and mechanical properties, as well as on their strengths and drawbacks in the context of future applications. Beyond graphene, one today counts hundreds of 2D materials, all derived from exfoliable 3D parents. First in line are hexagonal boron nitride (hBN), a wide-gap insulator, the transition-metal dichalcogenides, most of which are semiconductors, and black phosphorus. This family and its realm of potential properties and applications is significantly enlarged still by considering 2D material heterostructures, and even more so if one considers the shear endless possibilities offered by nanostructuring and functionalisation by intercalation or chemical addition of different atoms, molecules, or clusters.
Graphene occupies a position of choice, since it has imposed itself, in only a few years, as the paradigm of all these classes of 2D materials. The importance of graphene, and, beyond graphene, 2D materials in general, has been recognized as of 2013 by the European Union, by the instatement of a Future and Emerging Technologies "Graphene Flagship". The 10 year-, 140 member- flagship constitutes a most favourable framework for the study of 2D materials, and their applications in domains going from electronics and sensors to nano-chemistry and -medicine[1].
This 2 day PhOM Research Seminar aims at driving the discussion on local - and European - strategies and synergies for the (controlled) synthesis and characterisation of 2D materials and 2 material heterostructures. It will focus on
- column IV- and isoelectronic materials
- transition metal dichalcogenides
- 2D material heterostructures
- Applications of 2D material heterostructures in, among other fields, optics, opto-electronics, and spintronics
It is the intention of the PhOM Research Seminar to result in a plan of action at Paris-Saclay University, defining
- future collaborative projects at Paris-Saclay University and beyond
- organisation around Paris-Saclay University infrastructure
- strategies for the controlled synthesis of 2D material heterostructures
- common fund requests
Participation is free of charge, and will be
- by invitation
- following application using the webform below. Participation of all Paris-Saclay University research staff active in the field of 2D materials and 2D material heterostructures is encouraged.
In order to prepare and guide the discussion, a short questionnaire will be adressed to all participants before the workshop.
January 10th, 2019
9h – 10h30 Session 1
10h30 – 11h30 Coffee and posters
11h30 – 13h00 Session 2
13h00 - 14h30 Buffet lunch and posters
14h30 – 16h00 Session 3
16h30 – 17h00 Coffee and posters
17h00 - 18h30 Plenary Discussion
19h30 Dinner
January 11th, 2019
9h – 10h30 Session 4
10h30 – 11h30 Coffee and posters
11h30 – 13h00 Session 5
13h00 - 14h30 Buffet lunch and posters
14h30 – 16h00 Plenary Discussion
16h30 – 17h00 Final remarks and closing
[1] Graphene Flagship
