2D Materials - Production, Applications and Perspectives

Watch a 49-minute lecture where Professor Mildred Quintana explores the fascinating world of 2D materials and their vast potential in advanced technologies. Discover how unique properties like high specific surface area, charge transport, chemical stability, mechanical strength, flexibility, conductivity, tunable band gap, and optical transparency make these materials ideal for developing intelligent sensors, inks, reinforced composites, biomedical devices, and eco-friendly materials. Learn about current challenges in quality, scalability, dispersibility, and stability, while exploring recent research efforts in production, characterization, handling, and device implementation. Gain insights into the development of smart membranes for wastewater treatment and sustainable environmental applications, including limitations encountered and strategies employed to advance 2D-based materials research. Benefit from the expertise of Professor Quintana, an accomplished researcher and coordinator at the Center for Research in Health Sciences and Biomedicine, whose work has earned multiple prestigious awards and recognition in the field of materials science.