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Graphene for Energy: Which Promising Applications and How?

Thursday, 28 May 2015: 14:00
Lake Huron (Hilton Chicago)

ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN

With thousands of publications per year, graphene has raised a particularly great attention these last years. It is true that with an extraordinary combination of physical and technical properties including high flexibility, lightness, electronic mobility and ability to easily change its chemical properties by surface chemistry, graphene appears as an outstanding material which characteristics can interest many fields of application. Among them, energy conversion, production or storage are of such interest that the European's biggest research initiative, the “Graphene Flagship[1]” dedicated a specific work package only to that topic.

The present talk aims at reviewing some of these energy applications where graphene and graphene related materials are thought to provide disruptive performances. Actually, fulfil of these promises will depend on the control of the full value chain going from graphene production to integration into the energy devices. Moreover, to fully benefit from graphene properties, the integration strategies have to address the interfacing issue of graphene with hosting material. Further graphene functionalization steps are thus often necessary to adapt the surface graphene properties. It leads to the development of various graphene functionalization technologies without which a successful transfer of graphene into energy applications would be impossible. Various examples dealing with graphene doping, nano-structuring or nano-decorating will be discussed to illustrate the key role of these enabling technologies.