Mauricio Terrones

Professor Mauricio Terrones is currently The Verne M. Willaman Professor of Physics, and Professor of Chemistry, and Professor Materials Science & Engineering at Penn State University. He received his PhD. from the University of Sussex (UK) in 1998 under the supervision of Sir Prof. Harold W. Kroto (Nobel Laureate, FRS). He is also the Founder Director of the Center for 2-Dimensional and Layered Materials at Penn State, and also the NSF-IUCRC Center for Atomically Thin Multifunctional Coatings (ATOMIC). He is also the editor in Chief of the journal Carbon (IF=8.821), and has worked on carbon nanoscale materials since 1994. His current research concentrates on low dimensional materials that mainly involve 1- and 2-Dimensions, ranging from carbon nanotubes, graphene nanoribbons and nanothreads to graphene, boron nitride and chalcogenide monolayers (e.g. WS2, MoS2, NbS2 , etc). His group concentrates on challenging synthesis of novel nanoscale materials (1D and 2D) with unprecedented physico-chemical properties. He also focuses on performing state of-the-art in-situ and ex-situ characterization of nanomaterials using electronic transport, photo-transport, Raman spectroscopy, aberration corrected transmission electron microscopy, photoluminescence, electron energy loss spectroscopy, etc.