Symposium P: Graphene and Related Carbon Nanomaterials

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Graphene and Related Carbon Nanomaterials

For almost two decades now, the carbon nanomaterial (CNM) system has provided researchers the opportunity for spectacular new discoveries, significant advances in fundamental and applied science, and the development of disruptive technologies and applications. Today, the materials research community continues to discover and harness new low-dimensional graphitic carbon allotropes, perhaps at a historically unprecedented rate. In this context, carbon nanotubes and, more recently, graphene, have become versatile platforms for new materials research and device architectures, and are finding their way into nearly every facet of the research world, including conductive polymers, transparent electrodes, chemical sensors, high-frequency devices, optoelectronic sensors, alternative energy, and bio-inspired systems, to name a few. At the same time, researchers from diverse disciplines are pushing the frontiers of these materials by developing innovative arrays of ribbon, hybrid, functionalized, doped, and heterostructures often resulting in dramatically new scientific and engineering directions.

This symposium will target the following graphitic carbon geometries: two-dimensional sheets, nanoribbons and nanotubes, and their functionalized, hybrid, and heterostructures. Abstracts related to experimentally demonstrated and theoretically predicted properties, including details of the synthesis, structure, chemistry, stacking sequence, and transport manipulation of these materials, are solicited. This includes interdisciplinary topics related to the materials science, chemistry, physics, mechanics, and engineering of CNMs such as graphene, carbon nanotubes, nanoribbons, graphene oxide, graphane, fluoro-graphene, and graphene composites, with a long-term outlook on applications of these materials.

Session topics will include

  • Synthesis (graphene, GNR, CNTs, and other graphitic CNMs)
  • Novel properties (electronic, optical, mechanical, thermal, electrochemical, etc.)
  • Functionalization and doping
  • Multilayer, hybrid and heterostructures
  • Graphene nanoelectronics and optoelectronics
  • Novel applications (sensors, energy, bio-inspired, etc.)
  • Carbon nanotubes: theory, properties, devices, and applications
  • Nanoribbons: synthesis, theory, properties, devices, and applications

Joint sessions are being considered with Symposia O: Beyond Graphene—2D Atomic Layers from Layered Materials; T: Electrical Contacts to Nanomaterials and Nanodevices, AA: Advanced Interconnects for Micro- and Nanoelectronics–Materials, Processes, and Reliability, HH: Materials for High-Performance Photonics, and ZZ: Carbon Functional Interfaces. 

Invited Speakers Include:

Pulickel Ajayan (Rice Univ.), Eva Andrei (Rutgers Univ.), Adrian Bachtold (Catalan Inst. of Nanotechnology, Spain), Kirill Bolotin (Vanderbilt Univ.), Yong Chen (Purdue Univ.), Hongjie Dai (Stanford Univ.), Nader Engheta (Univ. of Pennsylvania), Roman Fasel (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland), Arindam Ghosh (Indian Inst. of Science, Bangalore, India), Pablo Jarillo-Herrero (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology), Anupama Kaul (National Science Foundation), Alessandra Lanzara (Univ. of California, Berkeley), Brian Leroy (Univ. of Arizona), Joseph Lyding (Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Paul McEuen (Cornell Univ.), Taisuke Ohta (Sandia National Labs), Maxim Zalalutdinov (Naval Research Lab), Jun Zhu (Pennsylvania State Univ.).

Symposium Organizers

Joshua A. Robinson
The Pennsylvania State University
Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering
University Park, PA 16802
Tel 814-865-1560, jrobinson@psu.edu

Jeremy T. Robinson
Naval Research Laboratory
Electronic Sciences and Technology Division
Code 6876, 4555 Overlook Ave. SW, Washington, DC 20007
Tel 202-404-4517, jeremy.robinson@nrl.navy.mil

Swastik Kar
Northeastern University
Dept. of Physics
204 Dana Bldg., 360 Huntington Ave., Boston, MA 02115
Tel 617-373-3375, s.kar@neu.edu

Saikat Talapatra
Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Dept. of Physics
Neckers 474, 1245 Lincoln Dr., Carbondale, IL 62901
Tel 618-453-2270, stalapatra@physics.siu.edu 

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