Center for Functional Nanomaterials Colloquium
"Adventures in Low-D: From Dancing Molecules to Atomic Collapse"
Presented by Alex Zettl, Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720
Thursday, December 3, 2015, 11 am
CFN, Bldg 735, Seminar Room, 2nd Floor
Hosted by: Dmitri Zakharov
I will describe recent experimental and theoretical investigations of carbon nanomaterials, including advances in electron microscopy imaging. Topics include movies of dynamic individual molecules and atoms, sequencing of graphene grain boundaries, edge reconstructions in ripped graphene, and experiments with the graphene liquid cell. Atomic collapse in "super heavy nuclei" formed by placing ions on graphene/BN laminates will also be described. The experimental tools are primarily TEM, STM, and transport. *E-mail: azettl@physics.berkeley.edu