International Seminars of Frontiers in Materials Science UPM-CIE Moncloa: Actual Technological Applications of Graphene

Actual Technological Applications of Graphene

08/01/2015

Title: Actual Technological Applications of Graphene

Date: Monday 16th January at 09:30

Place: E.T.S. Civil Engineering, basement 1. Calle Profesor Aranguren, E28040 Madrid

Speaker: Javier Martínez Rodrigo

Free admission

Summary

A decade ago, researchers Geim and Novoselov amaze the world with the discovery of a material formed with a single layer of atoms: graphene.

This material is very versatile due to their exceptional properties, such as electrical, optical or mechanical and is proposed to be used in a wide range of applications ranging from flexible electronic s to energy storage. In all these applications is offered the promise of significantly improving existing products and the possibility of designing materials and devices with new functionality.

But the reality is different, since there is only on the market a small number of products based on graphene. This is because the main problem for the introduction of grapheme in industrial applications is the lack of methods for the large scale production of graphene materials.

Furthermore, the development of graphene materials and devices is more mature in some areas, such as conductive inks or flexible electronics, but in other is in a more conceptual stage, such as biomedicine and aerospace technologies.

In this seminar, the fundamental properties of graphene that are relevant to actual industrial applications are reviewed, and the opportunities and challenges of new applications based on graphene technologies are analyzed.



Further information and contact details:
Dr. José Ygnacio Pastor, Organizer and Coordinator Scientific
Department of Material Science. Universidad Politecnica de Madrid
E.T.S. Civil Engineering, First Floor. Profesor Aranguren Road, E28040–Madrid
T. (+34) 913 366 684. F. (+34) 913 366 680. jypastor@mater.upm.es

Tag: Materials for the Future    Source: CEI Campus Moncloa

Event date:

12/01/2015