Project Summary
The aim of this project is the development of new hybrid materials based on the supramolecular interactions of graphene sheets with tailored organic molecules, either small polyaromatics or polymers, for applications in optoelectronics.
Different types of molecules (coronenes, perylenes, long alkanes, poly-phenyleneethynylenes, phthalocyanines, etc.) are known to interact with the surface of graphite forming highly ordered and stable crystalline monolayers on its surface. The orientation of the molecules on the surface is highly specific (i.e. face-on or edge-on), and even the lateral arrangement of the molecules on the surface can be ordered on nanometric scale.
GOSPEL project aims at exploiting this strong interaction to exfoliate low cost-graphite into graphene sheets, by mixing solutions of organic molecules with suspensions of graphite flakes.
For more details see the GOSPEL website here
Participating Researchers:
Dr. Vincenzo Palermo (Project Leader)
National Research Council Institute for Organic Synthesis and Photoreactivity, Bologna, Italy
Dr. David Beljonne (Principal Investigator)
Faculté des Sciences, Université de Mons-Hainaut, Mons, Belgium
Professor Gvido Bratina (Principal Investigator)
University of Nova Gorica, Nova Gorica, Slovenia
Dr. Cinzia Casiraghi (Principal Investigator)
Fachbereich Physik, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Dr. Roman Fasel (Principal Investigator)
Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Testing and Research, Surface Technologies Department, Dübendorf, Switzerland
Professor Klaus Müllen (Principal Investigator)
Max-Planck-Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz, Germany
Professor Paolo Samorì (Associated Partner)
Institut de Science et d'Ingénierie Supramoléculaires (I.S.I.S.), Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France
