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 KundratProfessor B. Layla Mehdi is the Chair in Electron Microscopy in the School of Engineering and Associate Director of the Albert Crewe Centre for Electron Microscopy at the University of Liverpool. She received her Master's in Chemistry from the University of Warsaw, Poland and her PhD in Chemistry from the Miami University, USA. Following her PhD, she joined the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), USA as a Postdoctoral Research Associate and was then promoted to a staff scientist. Her work at PNNL involved the development of Operando TEM stages to study dynamic processes in Li-ion batteries as part of the Department of Energy’s Joint Centre for Energy Storage Research (JCESR). She has over eleven years of experience in the development and application of in-situ methods in electron microscopy for which she has received numerous awards. These include the 2023 ERC Starting Grant funded by UKRI Horizon Europe guarantee, 2021 KIT International Excellence Grants and Fellowships, 2019 Albert Crewe Award from the Microscopy Society of America MSA for distinguished contributions to the field of Microscopy and Microanalysis in the Physical Sciences by an Early Career Scientist, a 2015 MRS Postdoctoral Award, a 2015 Microscopy Society of America postdoctoral award, a 2014 Microscopy and Microanalysis Presidential award, and the 2013 Miami University award for outstanding Ph.D. work. Additionally, in 2016 she received a JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship to perform Research at Nagoya University, Japan in collaboration with Toyota, which she turned down to join the University of Liverpool.
Her primary research area is focused on energy storage, and she is also the Energy Generation, 2D Materials, Conversion & Storage Science Team Lead of Relativistic Ultrafast Electron Diffraction and Imaging (RUEDI) Facility and part of a Fast Start “Degradation” and “Characterization” projects funded by the Faraday Institution/EPSRC.
Currently, her research group focuses on developing advanced new microscopy methods to generate an in-depth understanding of reaction kinetics at solid/liquid and solid/gas interfaces in batteries, electrocatalysis and pharmaceuticals.
Andreia 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