About The Event
Exploring the flatland of bi-dimensional materials for energy and (opto)electronics
Layered materials have many potentials for use in applications requiring (semi)conducting behavior, coupled to anisotropy or preferential orientations. In our group, we try to incorporate them into energy devices of different types, ranging from solar and photoelectrochemical cells up to energy-storage and piezoresistive systems.
In general, in our group choose to resort to highly scalable methods for their production and their processing, mostly solution-based, through the preparation of inks that can undergo further chemical processes or be deposited via spin/spray/dip-coating.
In this talk, we will give a collective view of some of the recent projects we are carrying on: we will talk about lead-free 2D perovskites and their application in solar cells and will discuss some uses of 2D transition metal dichalcogenides in electrochemical capacitors. We will show some recent results in the production and testing of layered heterojunctions based on two different semiconductors for use in photoelectrochemical hydrogen evolution. Finally, we will shift the focus on describing the potential of hydrogels containing 2D MoS2 for use in bio-compatible piezoresistive pressure sensors.
