Konstantin Novoselov
School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Manchester, UK
Date
11 March 2015
Host
Anastasia Varlet
Title
Materials in Flatland
Abstract
Probably the most important “property” of graphene (the first ever one-atom thick materials) is that it has opened a floodgate of experiments on many other 2D atomic crystals: BN, NbSe2, TaS2, MoS2, etc. If 2D materials provide a large range of different properties, sandwich structures made up of 2, 3, 4… different layers of such materials can offer even greater scope. Since these 2D-based heterostructures can be tailored with atomic precision and individual layers of very different character can be combined together – the properties of these structures can be tuned to study novel physical phenomena or to fit an enormous range of possible applications.