Center for Excitonics
Seminar Series Announcement
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Title: Metal Catalyzed sp2 Bonded Carbon -
Large-Scale Graphene
Synthesis and Beyond
Presenter: Dr. Peter Sutter
Organization: Center for Functional Nanomaterials
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Date: December 1, 2009
Time: 3:00 - 4:00pm
Place: Haus Room 36-428
MIT Campus
Center URL:
http://www.rle.mit.edu/excitonics
Seminar URL:
http://www.rle.mit.edu/excitonics/sutter-120109.html
Abstract
Carbon honeycomb lattices have shown a number of remarkable properties.
When wrapped up into fullerenes, for instance, superconductivity with high
transition temperatures can be induced by alkali intercalation. Rolling
carbon sheets up into 1-dimensional nanotubes generates the strongest and
stiffest material known. Spreading out as 2-dimensional graphene sheets
gives rise to charge carriers behaving as massless Dirac fermions with
extraordinarily high room temperature mobilities.
Non-carbide forming transition metals can be used to catalyze the assembly
of sp2 bonded carbon into macroscopic graphene sheets, required for a wide
variety of applications that harness the extraordinary properties of
single- and few-layer graphene. I will discuss recent advances in
understanding and controlling this synthesis methodology, derived
primarily from real-time, in-situ observations of graphene growth. Beyond
macroscopic graphene growth, transition metals may be used to develop
avenues for the selective and atomically precise “bottom up” synthesis of
graphene nanostructures, as well as heterostructures involving graphene
and other nanomaterials. First results suggest that a wide range of
functionalities may be achieved if this vision becomes a reality.
Bio
Peter Sutter leads the Interface Science and Catalysis Group in the Center
for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN) at Brookhaven National Laboratory. He
received his Ph.D. in physics from ETH Zürich in 1996. He pursued
postdoctoral research at the University of Wisconsin and held a Physics
faculty position at the Colorado School of Mines before joining the CFN in
2004. His research interests are in interfacial nanoscience, surface
chemistry and electronic structure, nanostructure formation and
manipulation, nanoscience for energy conversion and storage, as well as
scanning probe and electron microscopy. Dr. Sutter has received several
awards, among them a Research Corporation Research Innovation Award, a NSF
Career Award, and most recently a Scientific American 50 award in 2007. He
is the author of over 60 peer-reviewed publications, and has given over 30
invited presentations.
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