MIT-MTL Center for Graphene Devices and 2D Systems (MIT-CG)
Welcome to the webpage of the MIT-MTL Center for Graphene Devices and 2D Systems (MIT-CG) brings together, MIT researchers and industrial partners to advance the science and engineering of graphene-based technologies. The center explores advanced technologies and strategies that enable graphene-based materials, devices and systems to provide discriminating or break-through capabilities for a variety of system applications ranging from energy generation and smart fabrics and materials, to RF communications and sensing. The MIT-CG supports the development of the science, technology, tools and analysis for the creation of a vision for the future of graphene-enabled systems.
Memberships
The MIT/MTL Center for Graphene Devices and 2D Systems (MIT-CG) brings together, MIT researchers and industrial partners to advance the science and engineering of graphene and other two-dimensional materials. These amazing new materials are revolutionizing electronics, mechanical and chemical engineering, physics and many other disciplines. The MIT-MTL Center for Graphene Devices and 2D Systems aims to coordinate most of the work going on at MIT on these new materials, and brings together MIT faculty and students, with leading companies and government agencies interested in taking these materials from a science wonder to an engineering reality.
Specifically, the Center explores advanced technologies and strategies that enable 2D materials, devices and systems to provide discriminating or break-through capabilities for a variety of system applications ranging from energy generation/storage and smart fabrics and materials, to optoelectronics, RF communications and sensing. In all these applications, the MIT-CG supports the development of the science, technology, tools and analysis for the creation of a vision for the future of new systems enabled by 2D materials. Some of the multiple benefits of the Center’s membership include complimentary attendance to meetings, Industry Focus days, and web casting of seminars related to the main research directions of the Center.
The members of the Center also gain access to a resume book that connects students with potential employers, as well as to timely white papers on key issues regarding the challenges and opportunities of these new technologies. There are also numerous opportunities to collaborate with leading researchers on projects that address some of today’s challenges for these materials, devices and systems.
If you would like to learn more about the MIT/MTL Center of Graphene Devices and 2D Systems (MIT-CG), please contact the Program’s director, Prof. Tomás Palacios
News
The New Yorker: Feature Spotlight: Prof. Tomás Palacios
— Joseph Baylon; December 19th, 2014
Material Question: Graphene may be the most remarkable substance ever discovered. But what’s it for?”
By John Colapinto (Staff Writer with the New Yorker)
…Perhaps the most expansive thinker about the material’s potential is Tomas Palacios, a Spanish scientist who runs the Center for Graphene Devices and 2D Systems, at M.I.T. Rather than using graphene to improve existing applications, as Tour’s lab mostly does, Palacios is trying to build devices for a future world.
At thirty-six, Palacios has an undergraduate’s reedy build and a gentle way of speaking that makes wildly ambitious notions seem plausible. As an electrical engineer, he aspires to “ubiquitous electronics,” increasing “by a factor of one hundred” the number of electronic devices in our lives. From the perspective of his lab, the world would be greatly enhanced if every object, from windows to coffee cups, paper currency, and shoes, were embedded with energy harvesters, sensors, and light-emitting diodes, which allowed them to cheaply collect and transmit information. “Basically, everything around us will be able to convert itself into a display on demand,” he told me, when I visited him recently. Palacios says that graphene could make all this possible; first, though, it must be integrated into those coffee cups and shoes… Full article