Graphene, a single aromatic sheet of sp2 bonded carbon, exhibits novel electronic properties such as ballistic transport, massless Dirac fermions, Berry's phase, high conductivity, and localization suppression. There are intense efforts to apply graphene materials in electronic, optoelectronic, capacitor and sensing applications. This is driven by the desire to discover new performance threshold in this novel material. Over the last few years, graphene has emerged as the most important new material for electronic condensed material research. It can be said that graphene research is providing the impetus for the post-CMOS all carbon electronics revolution. In the realm of chemistry, graphene and its derivatives can be used as useful templates for synthesis and functionalization. This conference will focus on the rapidly progressing science and technology of this novel two-dimensional system.

Oral sessions will include a series of invited and keynote talks reviewing state-of-the-art preparation methods of large-area, continuous graphene, by either chemical or physical means. Various sessions will also dedicate to topics on characterization methods, modeling of the band structure of graphene, new functionalities offered by nanoscale graphene devices, chemistry and applications of graphene derivatives or graphene composites. Related materials such as diamond and carbon nanotubes will also be covered, especially when the chemistry and physics converged with that of graphene.

The timeliness of holding this conference in Singapore: Graphene is undoubtedly the hottest topic in condensed matter research today. It is timely to organize the conference in Singapore because there is very strong core expertise and focus strength in graphene and related materials research in Singapore, spread across the two local universities and research institutes, involving no less than 100 dedicated researchers.

This conference is part of an annual conference series dedicated to Graphene, located in Asia, that was initiated in Seoul, South Korea, in 2009 (http://workshop.kias.re.kr/RPGR/).

Conference Organization
Chair:
Professor Kian Ping Loh
Department of Chemistry
National University of Singapore
E-mail: chmlohkp@nus.edu.sg

Local Organizing Committee:
Prof. Kian Ping Loh, National University of Singapore
Prof. Ö. Barbaros, National University of Singapore
Prof. Wei Chen, National University of Singapore
Prof. Rusdi Andrivo, National University of Singapore
Prof. Peter Ho, National University of Singapore
Prof. John Thong, National University of Singapore
Prof. Ze-xiang Shen, Nanyang Technological University
Prof. Yu Ting, Nanyang Technological University
Prof. Lain-Jong Li, Nanyang Technological University
Prof. Haibin Su, Nanyang Technological University
Prof. Yongwei Zhang, Institute of High Performance Computing
Dr. Pramoda Kumari Pallathadka, Institute of Materials Research and Engineering

International Advisory Committee:
Prof. Kuei Hsien Chen, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Prof. B. V. Chowdari, Materials Research Society-Singapore
Prof. Toshiaki Enoki, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Prof. Andre Geim, Manchester University, UK
Prof. Dai Hongjie, Stanford University, USA
Dr. Michael Khor, National Research Foundation, Singapore
Prof. Phillip Kim, Columbia University, USA
Dr. Nghi Q. Lam, Applied Physics Letters, USA
Prof. Shuit-Tong Lee, City University of Hong Kong, China
Prof. Yun-Qi Liu, Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, China
Prof. Seeram Ramakhrisnan, National University of Singapore, Singapore.
Prof. Rod Ruoff, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Prof. Lim Khiang Wee, Institute of Materials Research and Engineering, Singapore

Confirmed Invited Speakers
Andre Geim (University of Manchester, UK)
Kostya Novoselov (University of Manchester, UK)
Phillip Kim (Columbia University, USA)
Hongjie Dai (Stanford University, USA)
Robert Haddon (University of California, Riverside, USA)
Antonio Castro Neto (Boston University, USA)
Vickas Berry (Kansas State University, USA)
Toshiaki Enoki (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
Liu Yun Qi (Chinese Academty of Sciences, China)
Byung Hee Hong (SKKU, Korea)
Manish Chhowalla (Rutgers State University of New Jersey, USA)
Sumio Ijima (Meijo University, Nagoya University, AIST/Nanotube Research Center, Japan)

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