Dr. Tim Verhagen: 2D sandwiches, artificial layered building blocks for multifunctional materials
We invite you to the lecture 2D sandwiches, artificial layered building blocks for multifunctional materials by Dr. Tim Verhagen from the Institute of Physics of the CAS on May 3 at 16:15 at Břehová (B-115).
Coffee and cookies will be available 30 minutes beforehand.
In this seminar, Dr. Verhagen will explain what are 2D sandwiches, why we would need them and how to bake them.
The possibility to create new materials bottom-up was enhanced via the stacking of atomically thin layers of two-dimensional (2D) materials with van der Waals interactions. Unfortunately, the downside of van der Waals interactions is the, in general, weak electronical and mechanical interaction between the individual layers. This hinders the creation of multiferroic materials working at ambient conditions, which are despite extensive research still very scarce, from stacked layers with van der Waals interactions.
The research, funded by an ERC Starting Grant, aims to create a new building block, the 2D sandwich, to tackle this problem.