Hosted by: Robert Harrison

Multiparadigm methods to span the scales from quantum mechanics to practical issues of functional nanoassembly and nanofabrication are enabling first principles predictions to guide and complement the experimental developments by designing and optimizing computationally the materials compositions and structures to assemble nanoscale systems with the requisite properties. Graphene derivatives have created an enormous impact on next generation nano devices owing to remarkable optical properties. The reduced dimensionality results in fairly strong electron-electron Coulomb interaction which influences the behavior of exciton in such low dimensional systems. In this talk, we employ multi-paradigm approaches to investigate functional graphene derivatives and related layer materials to unravel the versatile character in optical properties.