Joint Lecture IEEE -EDS Chapter in New South Wales and EDS Electronic Materials Committee

Kourosh Kalantar-Zadeh of University of New South Wales

Abstract: Liquid metals and their alloys are extraordinary materials with rich physics and chemistries. Yet our knowledge about them is inadequate and their usage has largely remained limited to centuries-old conventional applications. This talk presents some of the novel concepts that liquid metals can offer and present our group’s efforts for the unification the scattered works on liquid metals that have emerged in recent years. Here liquid metals are explored as solvents for reintroducing their unique chemistry and their skins are investigated as reaction media to create new atomically thin materials for developing electronic devices. Fundamental observations are pursued to harness the power of electron-rich liquid metallic environments and control the skin properties to create surface compounds depending on the materials in the metallic core. The findings are used for creating two dimensional semiconducting, conductive and dielectric materials with functional applications that can be used for developing transistors and piezoelectric devices.

Biography:

Kourosh Kalantar-Zadeh is a professor of Chemical Engineering at University of New South Wales (UNSW). He is one of the Australian Research Council (ARC) Laureate Fellows of 2018. Prof. Kalantar-Zadeh is involved in research in the fields of materials sciences, electronics, and transducers. He has co-authored of over 425 scientific papers and books and is also a member of the editorial boards of journals including ACS Sensors, ACS Applied Nano Materials, Advanced Materials Technologies, and ACS Nano.  He has received many international awards including the 2017 IEEE Sensor Council Achievement, 2018 ACS Advances in Measurement Science Lectureship awards and also 2020 RSC Robert Boyle Prize for Analytical Science. His name also appeared in the Clarivate Analytics most highly cited list since 2018.