My Presentation at the Marie-Curie Conference in Florence, 25-26 Novembre 2013. It was a short presentation given to a general audience of researchers and Marie-Curie fellows in all disciplines (from Scholars in Humanities to Medical Doctors).
From blog post on http://www.iannaccone.org/?p=2287
14. Graphene is just one atomic layer
of graphite
Can it be a “new” material ?
15. In 2004 A. Geim and K. Novoselov isolated
and characterised graphene at Manchester
Univ.
2010 Nobel Prize for "for
groundbreaking experiments regarding
the two-dimensional material
graphene”
16. A material with
exceptional properties
• Stable in single monolayer form
• A truly 2D material (as thin as physically possible)
17. A material with
exceptional properties
• Stable in single monolayer form
• A truly 2D material (as thin as physically possible)
• Excellent electrical conductor (up to 1000x Si)
• Excellent thermal conductor
18. A material with
exceptional properties
• Stable in single monolayer form
• A truly 2D material (as thin as physically possible)
• Excellent electrical conductor (up to 1000x Si)
• Excellent thermal conductor
• Transparent and flexible
• Exceptionally Strong (300x Steel)
22. Our specialty: Early assessment of
device potential
NanoTCAD VIDES
3D atomistic device simulator
Released as open source as a
python module at
http://vides.nanotcad.com
400+ downloads, 60+ papers
A long story started from FP5
NanoTCAD Project (1999)– now G.
Fiori (UniPi) lead developer]