The project BOGART aims to achieve a breakthrough in terms of synthesis and exploitation of the optical and electronic properties of graphene related materials: Graphene quantum dots (GQDs), Graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) and Graphene Nanomeshes (GNMs). Beyond the fundamental interest in terms of the development of new synthetic routes and understanding of their optical and electronic properties, nanographene materials can play a major role in a wide range of cutting-edge applications such as single photon emitters for quantum devices, transport channels of field effect transistors or spintronic devices, organic light-emitting diodes, optical or chemical sensors, and biocompatible dyes.
In this project, we propose to 1) develop new nanographene materials (GQDs, GNRs and GNMs) exhibiting novel structures and properties; 2) process molecularly isolated nanographenes for characterization and further applications; and 3) characterize nanographene materials properties through advanced microscopic and spectroscopic experiments both at the single molecule level and on ensembles.
To achieve this goal we want to create a task force in the “Plateau de Saclay” that represents different fields of science: synthetic chemistry, physics, microscopy and modelling that will be able to structure the community at the French and European level.