This symposium invites contributions focused on synthesising, characterising, and integrating two-dimensional (2D) materials for applications in electronics, photonics, and energy harvesting. Electrocatalysis and sensing platforms are also included in the range of applications. Contributions are welcome across all 2D material families, including MXenes, transition metal dichalcogenides, metal phosphorous trichalcogenides, and new van der Waals heterostructures. The emphasis will be on the synthesis and modification of material properties, such as morphology, layer number, surface terminations, and interface quality, and how these enable effective integration into conductive systems and device platforms. Related topics include the implementation of 2D perovskites in light-matter interactions for enhanced device performance. By connecting researchers working in material synthesis and chemical modification, processing, and device fabrication, Syn2Dev aims to foster a comprehensive discussion on advancing 2D materials from lab-scale production to functional devices.
- 2D materials: synthesis, fabrication and functionalisation
- In situ/operando techniques for characterization of 2D materials
- Energy harvesting
- Photonics and optoelectronic devices
- Electronics and transistor technologies
- Electrocatalysis and sensing platforms
- Nanotechnology approaches for device integration
- 2D–perovskite hybrid systems and light–matter interactions
- Structure-property-function relationships guided by synthesis and processing conditions
Andres Castellanos-Gomez is a Tenured Scientist in the Spanish National Research Council. He explores novel 2D materials and studies their mechanical, electrical and optical properties with special interest on the application of these materials in nanomechanical and optoelectronic devices. He is author of more than 100 articles in international peer review journals and 6 book chapters. He was awarded an ERC Starting Grant in 2017 and has been selected as one of the Top Ten Spanish Talents of 2017 by the MIT Technology Reviews. He has been also recognized with the Young Researcher Award (experimental physics) of the Royal Physical Society of Spain (2016).
Christoph GadermaierJesus Gonzalez-JulianArtur HermanRobert KudrawiecVojtech KundratAndreia T. Pereira is a PhD researcher at i3S - Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Porto, Portugal. In 2020, she got her PhD in the Bioengineering field, from the Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, University of Porto, through the highly competitive and prestigious GABBA program. Throughout her scientific career, Andreia passed by 6 national/international labs (at least 1 paper/each) crossing fields from bioengineering, encompassing research topics such as food chemistry, theoretical chemistry, nanomaterials, physical engineering, and biomedicine. Her main areas of expertise are the design/characterization of polymers or biopolymers; the production and characterization of nanomaterial-based composites and coatings; and the in vitro/in vivo evaluation of materials hemo/biocompatibility. In 2021, she established a new research line at i3S that focuses on energy harvesting systems for biomedical applications (3 papers, 1 as 1st author). Mentoring, training, and transmitting knowledge through pedagogy to the next student generations is a passion of Andreia. As such, she has supervised 4 MSc theses, 3 MSc/BSc internships, 2 MSc's fellows, and 1 contracted researcher. The work performed by Andreia has been recognized, namely by being awarded the prestigious Maria de Sousa award from the Bial Foundation & Portuguese Medical Association (handed over by the Portuguese Prime Minister), the L'Oréal Portugal Honor Medals for Women in Science from the L'Oréal Foundation, FCT, and UNESCO (19nd Edition, handed over by the former Portuguese First Lady), the Julia Polak award from the European Society of Biomaterials, and a Travel Grant from the Graphene Flagship. Driven by patient-centered research, Andreia is also an entrepreneur seeking to transfer her lab technologies to the market. As such, she engaged in 4 ignition programs (2 HiSeedTech/Porto Business School, 1 EIT-Health and 1 Universitat Pompeu Fabra) and attracted international/national funding for technology exploitation (PI 100k €, La Caixa Foundation; co-PI 4k €, EIT-Health/UPorto). Andreia has built a network comprising 22 national/international researchers, medical doctors, business advisors, and CEOs. She passed by the lab of the world's top materials scientist, Prof. Wang. Overall, throughout her scientific career, Andreia published 19 papers (5 as 1st & 2 as Corresponding index h: 10), 1 chapter in the prestigious Biomaterials Science Book, 2 patents, participated in 10 scientific projects (4 PI (349k €) & 1 co-PI (4k €)), was awarded a PhD & Post-Doc grant/contract from competitive calls (287k €)), presented 24 orals and 16 posters, won 4 awards, organized 5 conferences/workshop/summer schools, and supervised/mentored 9 researcher/students, referee papers, revised EU project and was invited to integrate PhD juries panel.
Prof. Zdenek Sofer is tenured professor at the University of Chemistry and Technology Prague since 2019. He received his PhD also at University of Chemistry and Technology Prague, Czech Republic, in 2008. During his PhD he spent one year in Forschungszentrum Julich (Peter Grünberg Institute, Germany) and also one postdoctoral stay at University Duisburg-Essen, Germany. Research interests of prof. Sofer concerning on 2D materials, its crystal growth, chemical modifications and derivatisation. His research covers various applications of 2D materials including energy storage and conversion, electronic, catalysis and sensing devices. He is an associated editor of FlatChem journal. He has published over 460 articles, which received over 15000 citations (h-index of 61).
Lena Yadgarov