You are welcome to attend Thomas Storwick's MASc oral exam. He will discuss his research titled: A Journey into Jamming: Phase Transitions and Edge-to-Edge Heterostructures in Langmuir Blodgett Films of Exfoliated Two-Dimensional Materials
Abstract:
Two-dimensional (2D) materials hold significant promise as new electronic materials, and could enable high mobility devices, flexible electronics, and large area electronics and optoelectronics. In particular, graphene and few-layer molybdenum disulfide have been the subject of significant study as new and exciting materials. Hindering the application of 2D materials is the lack of easy, scalable methods for deposition single layers of 2D materials.
Top-down chemical methods like CVD can deposit large area high quality films, but remain highly destructive techniques, requiring high temperatures, harmful and caustic reagents, and high vacuum. Recent research in Langmuir Blodgett techniques have enabled large area coatings, continuous roll-to-roll coating, and expanded the repertoire of materials that can be coated. With this research has come renewed interest in the mechanics and dynamics of 2D materials coatings on the air-water interface. In this work, we expand this knowledge by undertaking a comprehensive study of 2D particle jamming on the air water interface. Furthermore, we employ this understanding to demonstrate, for the first time, edge-to-edge heterostructure films assembled on the air-water interface.
The exam will be held in QNC, Room 4402.