Topic: Graphene: Technology and Applications - Material without Limits

Presenter: Professor Konstantin Novoselov (2010 Nobel Prize Winner in Physics)

Time: February 20, 2014 (Thursday) 9:30am – 10:50am

Location: Video room in the four member institutions

Abstract:

Professor Konstantin Novoselov will overview the recent development of graphene technology, try to forecast the future applications and discuss the unique opportunities the new paradigm of one-atom-thick materials. He’ll talk on electronics, medical, optoelectronics.

Professor Konstantin Novoselov:

Professor Konstantin ‘Kostya’ Novoselov was born in Russia in August 1974. He is best known for isolating graphene at The University of Manchester in 2004, and is an expert in condensed matter physics, mesoscopic physics and nanotechnology. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2010 for his achievements with graphene.

Kostya holds positions of Honorary Professor of Physics and the Royal Society Research Fellow at The University of Manchester.

He graduated from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, and undertook his PhD studies at the University of Nijmegen in the Netherlands before moving to The University of Manchester in with his doctoral advisor Andre Geim in 2001.

Professor Novoselov has published more than 180 peer-reviewed research papers. He was awarded with numerous prizes, including Nicholas Kurti Prize (2007), International Union of Pure and Applied Science Prize (2008), MIT Technology Review young innovator (2008), Europhysics Prize (2008), Bragg Lecture Prize from the Union of Crystallography (2011) and the Kohn Award Lecture (2012).

He was knighted in the 2012 New Year Honours.