DFG is funding the Collaborative Research Centre 1415 “Chemistry of Synthetic Two-Dimensional Materials”

The economy of the 21^st century is enabled and fuelled by advanced materials for electronics and technologies. In this respect, the arena of two-dimensional materials (2DMs) became popular over the last decade, because 2DMs offer great promise in applications ranging from electronic devices to catalysis, and from information technology to medicine. 2DMs represent a class of nanomaterials with single- to few-layers thickness (≤ 10 layers) and high structural definition at the atomic/molecular level.

The Collaborative Research Centre (CRC) 1415 “Chemistry of Synthetic Two-Dimensional Materials” will aim at the controlled bottom-up synthesis and the development of novel classes of synthetic 2DMs with high structural definition. Moreover, the development of in-situ and ex-situ spectroscopic, microscopic and diffraction characterization methods plays a key role. The third focal point of the research initiative is to theoretically tackle the chemical and physical phenomena of 2DMs using advanced theoretical methods and models, and to predict the 2DM’s formation and their physical and chemical properties.

Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Xinliang Feng
Deputy spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Thomas Heine
Contact: , +49 351 463 43251 and , +49 351 463 37637

Participating research institutes
Technische Universität Dresden, (cfaed, Professur für Molekulare Funktionsmaterialien)
Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf
Leibnitz-Institut für Polymerforschung Dresden e.V.
Leibnitz-Institut für Festkörper- und Werkstoffforschung Dresden
Universität Ulm

Total funding: ~7.7 Mio. EUR.