Challenges in Chemical Sensing with Graphene Derivatives and 2D materials (SENSE)

The SENSE workshop will bring together experts in the field of chemical sensing with 2D materials and graphene derivatives seeking for an efficient implementation of such materials in operating sensing devices and architectures. Chemical sensors are part of modern society, finding broad applications in environmental and indoor monitoring, industrial safety, industrial chemical productions processes, pharmaceutical, food products, healthcare, security, etc.

We believe that this workshop will represent a very stimulating environment facilitating the easy flow of knowledge and ideas among participants belonging to multidisciplinary research areas (chemistry, physics, engineering, etc.).  The workshop is organized in the frame of the project “SENSATION - Gas Sensing with Atomic Precision for Environmental Protection” supported by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (MCIN), the European Union and the State Investigation Agency (AEI).

Realizing the next-generation of chemical sensors technologically relevant, continuous and real-time monitoring, portable, eventually compatible with wireless transmission, necessitates access to novel classes of materials and new methods of integration into functional sensing devices, outperforming existing sensors technologies. Graphene derivatives and two-dimensional (2D) materials revealed their potential as ground-breaking materials for chemical sensing. In fact, their large surface-to-volume ratio, makes available an incomparable surface area for material-analyte interactions even at very low concentrations. Moreover, their outstanding electronic, chemical and physical properties arising from their 2D nature, make them suitable for several sensing architectures electrical-, optical- and mechanical-based.

Topics include, though are not limited to:

1. Development of novel routes in organic chemistry, both in solution and on surfaces, for the synthesis of materials with tailored functionalities optimized for chemical sensing applications.

2. Development of computational screening schemes with predictive power for the identification of promising sensing materials.

3. Characterization in ultra-high vacuum of graphene, graphene nanoribbons, nanographene and 2D materials interactions with analytes such as gas, volatile compounds, ions, biomolecules, etc.  (with surface science techniques)

4. Characterization of graphene/2D materials-analyses interactions in environmental conditions (with in-operando techniques as near ambient pressure photoemission-NAPP, XAS, Raman, etc....)

5. Proof of concept sensing devices and new sensing technologies based on graphene/2D materials nanoarchitectures.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:

Martina Corso- Centro de  Física de Materiales (CFM), Donostia-San Sebastián

Aran Garcia-Lekue − Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC), Donostia-San Sebastián

Aitor Mugarza  − Institut Català de Nanociència i Nanotecnologia (ICN2), Barcelona

Diego Peña  − Centro Singular de Investigaciόn en Química Biolόxica e Materiais Moleculares (CiQUS) and Departamento de Química Orgánica, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela (Spain)

Dimas Garcias de Oteyza  −  Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology Research Center (CINN), CSIC-UNIOVI-PA Campus de Mieres - Universidad de Oviedo.