报告摘要

Disruptive technologies are usually characterised by universal, versatile applications, which change many aspects of our life simultaneously, penetrating every corner of our existence. In order to become disruptive, a new technology needs to offer not incremental, but dramatic, orders of magnitude improvements. Moreover, the more universal the technology, the better chances it has for broad base success. Significant progress has been made in taking graphene and related layered materials from a state of raw potential to a point where they can revolutionize multiple industries. I will overview the progress done thus far and the future roadmap.

报告人简介

Prof. Andrea Ferrari is Professor of nanotechnology at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Pembroke College. He founded and directs the Cambridge Graphene Centre and the EPSRC Layered Materials Research Foundry. He co-Chairs the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in 2D Materials for Tomorrow, the University of Cambridge Strategic Research Initiative in Quantum and Advanced Materials for a Sustainable Society (QAMSS), and the Coordination Panel of the Innovative Advanced Materials for Europe (IAM4EU) Partnership. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, the American Physical Society, the Materials Research Society, the Institute of Physics, the Optical Society, the Royal Society of Chemistry, The European Academy of Sciences, the Academia Europaea, and he received numerous awards, such as the Royal Society Brian Mercer Award for Innovation, the Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award, the Marie Curie Excellence Award, the Philip Leverhulme Prize, The EU-40 Materials Prize.