Bottom-up computational design of hybrid 2D/3D nanostructures

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Thanks to their unique and remarkable physical and electronic properties, two-dimensional (2D) materials open up new categories of physics that are not available in conventional three-dimensional (3D) materials, promising unprecedented possibilities for nanotechnology and attracting enormous interests worldwide. However, the application of 2D materials is seriously bottlenecked by difficulties in large-scale high-quality fabrication and precise material manipulation. Aiming to tackle the above challenges, this NSERC Discovery Grants (DG) program proposes to explore novel design routes to directly transform 2D materials or to integrate them with 3D nanomaterials into hybrid 2D-3D nanostructures. Such hybrid nanostructures retain many unique properties of its 2D components while provide a bulk form to ease manipulation and incorporation in the device design. Meanwhile they also serve as an efficient means to ease the application of external fields, such as electric and strain fields, to engineer the properties of 2D materials, providing a path towards the design of tunable nanodevices.