报告题目：Graphene and Beyond: Recent Progress

报告人：Prof. Andre Geim 英国曼彻斯特大学

Sir Andre Geim is the Regius Professor and Royal Society Research Professor at the University of Manchester. He has received numerous awards and distinctions, including the John Carty Prize from the US National Academy of Sciences and the Copley Medal from the Royal Society, and holds honorary doctorates and professorships from many countries and universities. Most notably, he was awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics for his groundbreaking work on graphene.

Andre Geim was born in Russia in 1958 to German parents and holds dual Dutch and British citizenship. He started his academic career in Moscow, spent several years as a postdoctoral researcher at the universities of Nottingham, Bath and Copenhagen and then moved to the Netherlands as associate professor, before coming to Manchester in 2001.

During his career, Andre Geim has published many research papers, of which more than 25 are cited over 1,000 times and 4 cited over 10,000 times. Two of the latter are now on the list of 100 most cited research papers in human history. Thomson-Reuters repeatedly named Andre Geim among the world’s most active scientists and attribute to him the initiation of three new research fronts: diamagnetic levitation, gecko tape and graphene.

Sir Andre was also awarded the Ig Nobel prize in 2000 for his work on levitation, becoming the only recipient of both Nobel and Ig Nobel Prizes. He was also knighted by both Dutch and British queens.

报告摘要：Andre Geim will overview the group’s recent progress on the understanding of two-dimensional materials and their van der Waals assemblies, focusing mostly on fundamental results obtained during 2017-2018. Those include a pronounced behavior of charge carriers in high-quality graphene as highly viscous liquid, new types of quantum oscillations at high temperatures and molecular transport through angstrom-scale capillaries.

报告题目：Graphdiyne Materials：From  Foundation to Application

报告人：李玉良 院士 中国科学院化学研究所

Yuliang Li is a Professor at the Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is the academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He worked as a visiting scholar and visiting professor at the Lab of Organic Chemistry at University of Amsterdam in Netherlands, the Radiation Lab at University of Notre Dame and Georgia Institute of Technology in USA, and the Department of Chemistry at the University of Hong Kong. He has published more than 600 peer reviewed scientific articles and invited reviews in the journals, such as Chem. Rev., Acc. Chem. Res., Chem. Soc. Rev., J. Am. Chem. Soc., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., PNAS and Adv. Mater., Nat. Commun. et al.. He has been the recipient of numerous awards including National Natural Science Award of China, the Second-Class (2014, 2002 and 2005), the Second-Class Award of Nature Science of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1999,  the First-Class Award of Nature Science of Beijing City (2014 and 2004) respectively and The Prize for Scientific and Technological Progress of Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation（2017）. His research interests lie in the fields on chemistry of carbon and rich carbon, design and synthesis of low dimension and large size molecular aggregations structures based carbon and rich carbon materials with particular focus on the photo-, electro-active heterojuction materials, nanoscale and nano-structural materials.

报告摘要：As a new all-carbon material, 2D graphdiyne has attracted more and more attention due to its preparation under low-temperature. Graphdiyne, consisting of layers containing sp and sp2 carbons, was proposed as one of the synthetically approachable carbon allotropes. In graphdiyne, each benzene ring is connected to six adjacent benzene rings through two carbon–carbon triple bonds, resulting in a flat porous structure exhibiting high chemical stability and electrical conductivity. Graphdiyne families have attracted great attention of many structural, theoretical, and synthetic scientists, due to their promising electronic, optical, and mechanical properties. The physical properties of graphdiyne have also been systemically investigated and the applications of graphdiyne in the fields of energy, optoelectronics and catalysis has been achieved.

报告题目：Materials Science with Two-dimensional Atomic Layers

报告人：Prof. Pulickel Ajayan 美国莱斯大学

Pulickel M. Ajayan has been a pioneer in the area of nanotechnology and was involved in early work in the development of carbon nanotubes. He has published around 900 journal papers, earning more than 75,000 citations with an h-index of 135 (ISI citation data). His work has covered diverse areas of nanomaterials including nanoparticles, nanotubes, 2D materials, nanocomposite and energy storage materials. His work in the past two decades has particularly focused on the structure-property correlations in nanomaterials. Presently he is the Benjamin M. and Mary Greenwood Anderson professor of Engineering at Rice University in Houston, Texas and the founding chair of the department of Materials Science and NanoEngineering. He is affiliated with several other universities around the world as visiting professor and has given over three hundred and fifty invited talks at various venues and conferences. He is the recipient of awards such as the Spiers memorial award from the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK), MRS medal, Alexander von Humboldt-Helmoltz senior award, and several endowed lectures. He received Docteur Honoris Causa from the Universite Catholique de of Louvain in 2014. He has also been recognized as distinguished alumni by his Alma Mater Banaras Hindu University and the department of materials science at Northwestern University. 

报告摘要：There has been tremendous interest in recent years to study two-dimensional (2D) atomic layers which form building blocks of many bulk layered materials. This talk will focus on the materials science of the emerging field of 2D atomic layers, their hybrids and composites. Several aspects that include synthesis, characterization and manipulation will be explored with the objective of achieving 2D functional structures. In particular the talk will focus on phase engineering in 2D layers, stacking control in artificially stacked layered structures from 2D atomic layers of different compositions, doping and alloying in 2D layers and the creation of multi-component 2D transition metal dichalcogenide layers. In addition the talk also will address chemical functionalization and controlled chemical manipulation of 2D layers. The talk will explore the emerging landscape of 2D materials systems that include graphene, boron-nitrogen-carbon systems, and a large number of transition metal dichalcogenide compositions. Some of anticipated applications of these materials will also be discussed.