Thomas Heine visits the Materials Science Institue of Madrid as part of our Lectures on Materials Sciences

The researcher from Technische Universität Dresden gave a talk entitled 'Mattermorphosis'.

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The Institute of Materials Science of Madrid (ICMM), CSIC, is having its third Lecture on Materials Science: Thomas Heine is coming to our centre to give a talk entitled Mattermorphosis. The meeting with the researcher from Technische Universität Dresden is taking place on Friday, June the 30th at 12PM at our Lecture Hall. We will have a coffee served at our cafeteria at 11.30 AM and after lunch, the scientist will have a meeting with some of our researchers. 

Thomas Heine, FRSC, MAE (Ph.D. 1999, venia legendi 2006 TU Dresden) started his research group in 2008 at Jacobs University Bremen, moved in 2015 to the University of Leipzig, and 2018 to his current position at Technische Universität Dresden. 

He is a highly cited author with more than 350 peer-reviewed articles, and an h-index of 87 (ISI) / 96 (Google Scholar). In fact, the research professor is elected member of the Review Board of Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) and coordinates DFG Priority Program PP 2244 “2D Materials: Physics of van der Waals [hetero]structures” and the Marie S. Curie European Training Network “2Exciting”.

During his lecture, he will explain some factors that define materials' properties beyond their intrinsic characteristics. As it is known, the properties of a material are defined by its composition and structure. This principle of chemistry is well-known for decades and is the basis for the development of molecules and materials. 

Because of that, in the first part of the talk, Heine will show how the edge structure in graphene nanoribbons determines the band gap (including metallic state) and electronic topology of these all-carbon materials. In the second, he will discuss superlattice states in transition metal dichalcogenide bilayers, which can form flat bands, Dirac, or kagome features depending on the twist angle.

By the end, the professor will discuss how the underlying lattice topology can define the properties of a 2D framework material, such as a 2D polymer, covalent-organic framework, or metal-organic framework.