SCIENCE AT THE EDGE SEMINAR SERIES

Engineering Seminar

Friday, 17 February 2012 at 11:30am

Room 1400 Biomedical and Physical Sciences Bldg.

Refreshments at 11:15

Speaker: Liang-shi Li
         Department of Chemistry,
         Indiana University

Title:   Colloidal Graphene Quantum Dots - A New Type of Carbon Materials
         toward Energy Applications

Abstract:

Burning of carbon-rich substances (such as coal) has been a major source of
energy we use today. It not only depletes resources but also adversely impact
the environment. We have been exploring renewable ways to use carbon for
energy with the colloidal graphene quantum dots (QDs) we recently developed.
In my talk I will talk about synthesis of the graphene QDs and tuning of their
electronic and optical properties for applications in solar cells. I will also
discuss interesting photophysical phenomena observed in the QDs, and their
uses as a model system to understand processes in heterogeneous catalysis.

 

Bio:

Liang-shi Li obtained his B.S. and M.S. degrees at the University of Science
and Technology of China. After finishing his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry at
the University of California, Berkeley and postdoctoral training in Organic
Chemistry at Northwestern University, he joined Indiana University as an
assistant professor of Chemistry in 2006. He is interested in chemistry and
physics of carbon-rich materials and their applications in renewable energy
and neurosciences.