Recent Awards in 2015:

-Prof Akinwande is awarded the 2015 IEEE Nanotechnology Early Career Award.

Prof. Akinwande receiving the IEEE Nanotechnology Early Career Award from IEEE President Dr. Howard E. Michel at the historic Palazzo Brancaccio in Rome, July 2015.

–Recent PhD graduate Avinash Nayak is honored with the UT-Austin Ben Streetman Prize for “Outstanding Research by a Graduate Student in Electronic and Photonic Materials and Devices“. Congrats on graduation!

Avinash Nayak receives his award from Prof. Ben Streeman (center)

Congratulations!

Our invited review article on flexible 2D nanoelectronics (http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms6678 ) is now online at nature communications.

The review is timely and marks the 10 year anniversary of the pioneering works on graphene by Manchester and Georgia Tech groups.

The review article is a collaborative authorship with Jim Hone’s group at Columbia University.

Graphene synthesis has been demonstrated on industry standard 300mm silicon wafers showing more 95% monolayer uniformity. Notably statistical studies reveal that wafer-scale polycrystalline graphene offers similar or superior electrical results than single-crystal cost-expensive synthesized graphene.

The work was done in collaboration with Aixtron the leading graphene equipment manufacturer.

Publication in ACS nano

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/nn5038493

News coverage

http://nanotechweb.org/cws/article/tech/58674

http://thestack.com/graphene-research-manufacturing-breakthrough-university-of-texas-aixtron

Prof. Akinwande Chairs two recent international workshops on 2D materials at MRS spring meeting and ARL.

The MRS 2014 spring meeting was focused on roll-to-roll graphene and co-organized and co-chaired by Prof. Rod Ruoff. International speakers from leading institutions and companies presented on the progress on this front. The event was sponsored by NSF, the Nascent ERC center, and Aixtron Inc.

The two-day event at ARL in August 2014 focused on the science and applications of 2D materials beyond graphene and featured researchers from the US, Europe, and South America. The event was sponsored by ARO, ARL and Nascent ERC center.

For more information about these past events, send an email inquiry.