Advanced Methods of Semiconductor Research Seminar – Tuesday 3rd of February 2026
We cordially invite you to Advanced Methods of Semiconductor Research Seminar on Tuesday 3rd of February 2026 at 13:15 in room 321, building A-1, where there will be delivered a lecture:
Making, Dissolving, and Controlling New Covalent Nanomaterials
by Dr Adam Clancy
from Department of Chemistry, University College London
The lecture abstract is attached below.
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Lecture abstract:
High aspect ratio covalent nanomaterials is a family which contains the most famous nanomaterial of them all: graphene. However, beyond this wonder material is a whole world of different main group elements which can form 1D and 2D species with facinating properties of their own. In this talk, I will introduce a few of our developing nanomaterials. Firstly, group 15 nanoribbons with amazing optical and magnetic properties derived from their edge states [1] whose band gap and conductivities can be controlled through alloying chemistries [2] , developed as part of our wider focus on phosphorus [3]. Secondly, I will introduce 2D borophene oxide, a very cheap and remarkably easy to produce 2D species which dissolves spontaneously and can now be band gap engineered through simple one-pot functionalisations.
References
[1] Ashoka, Nature, 2025, 639 (8054), 348-353
[2] Zhang, JACS, 2023, 145 (33), 18286–18295
[3] Shutt, Chem Eur J, 2023, 29 (55), e202301232
