The Swedish Graphene Initiative
Research Project, 2012 – 2017

Swedish Graphene Initiative has assembled around thirty graphene researchers from Chalmers and the universities in Uppsala and Linköping into a close cooperation initiative. Different types of expertise from among the leaders in materials research have been brought together to expand graphene competency and to establish graphene know-how in Sweden. Swedish Graphene Initiative combines theory and experimentation in physics, chemistry and technology in order to explore how graphene's unique potential can be transformed into technical solutions. Within the framework of the project, we are developing methods, primarily sonochemical exfoliation and vaporisation of silicon carbide, to produce graphene, as well as methods for making graphene functional. On the basic research level, we are investigating and processing graphene on nanolevel to ascertain what happens if the material is modified in different ways. We are also working on applications, for example how graphene can be used in electronics or how vibrating graphene can be used as a hypersensitive sensor. Rather than being built around a number of concrete results that are to be achieved, Swedish Graphene Initiative aims to achieve an exchange of ideas between the different research groups.

Participants

Mikael Fogelström (contact)

Chalmers, Microtechnology and Nanoscience (MC2), Applied Quantum Physics

Andreas Isacsson

Chalmers, Physics, Condensed Matter Theory

Jari Kinaret

Chalmers, Physics, Condensed Matter Theory

Sergey Kubatkin

Chalmers, Microtechnology and Nanoscience (MC2), Quantum Device Physics

Floriana Lombardi

Chalmers, Microtechnology and Nanoscience (MC2), Quantum Device Physics

Tomas Löfwander

Chalmers, Microtechnology and Nanoscience (MC2), Applied Quantum Physics

Eva Olsson

Chalmers, Physics, Eva Olsson Group

Niklas Rorsman

Chalmers, Microtechnology and Nanoscience (MC2), Microwave Electronics

Elsebeth Schröder

Chalmers, Microtechnology and Nanoscience (MC2), Quantum Device Physics

Jan Stake

Chalmers, Microtechnology and Nanoscience (MC2), Terahertz and Millimetre Wave Laboratory

Avgust Yurgens

Chalmers, Microtechnology and Nanoscience (MC2), Quantum Device Physics

Herbert Zirath

Chalmers, Microtechnology and Nanoscience (MC2), Microwave Electronics

Collaborations

Linköping University

Linköping, Sweden

Uppsala University

Uppsala, Sweden

Funding

Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation

Project ID: KAW 2011.0082
Funding Chalmers participation during 2012–2017

Related Areas of Advance and Infrastructure

Information and Communication Technology

Areas of Advance

Kollberg Laboratory

Infrastructure

Nanoscience and Nanotechnology

Areas of Advance

Basic sciences

Roots

Nanofabrication Laboratory

Infrastructure

Publications

2017

Methylbenzenes on graphene

Journal article

More information

Project Web Page at Chalmers

http://www.chalmers.se/en/projects/Pages/S...

Latest update

11/11/2016