Proceedings of MATSUS23 & Sustainable Technology Forum València (STECH23) (MATSUS23)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.29363/nanoge.matsus.2023.082
Publication date: 22nd December 2022
Two-dimensional (2D) materials can provide a suitable platform to develop new technologies for energy applications. In my group we are combining functional molecules with 2D materials with the idea of tuning/improving the properties of the “all surface” 2D material via an active control of the hybrid interface. This concept, which goes much beyond the conventional chemical functionalization of a 2D material, can provide an entire new class of hybrid molecular / 2D heterostructures, which may be at the origin of a novel generation of materials and devices of direct application in electronics, spintronics, molecular sensing and energy. Here this concept will be presented and used in the design of low energy consumption spintronic devices as well as in energy storage and conversion. In the first part I will show that 2D magnetic materials as well as hybrid molecular /2D antiferromagnets can be used to store and transport information with extremely low energy disipation and tunability. In the second part, hybrid materials formed by electroactive inorganic layers will be used as electrodes in supercapacitive devices and as electrocatalysts.