Biography

Gagik Shmavonyan is Full Professor at National Polytechnic University of Armenia. He got his PhD in Physics in 1996 and D.Sc in Engineering in 2009 at the same University. He did postdoc at National Taiwan University, Taiwan (2001-2002). He was a Visiting Professor at the University of Hull, UK (2000, 2003), Polytechnic of Milan, Italy (2004-2005), University of Bremen, Germany (2002, 2006), Free University Berlin, Germany (2011), Trinity College Dublin, Ireland (2012), University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain (2013-2014), University of Cergy-Pontoise, France (2016, 2017) and Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, National Center for Scientific Research "Demokritos", Athens, Greece (2017). His current research interests are 2D atomic materials, their structures and devices. He has authored/co-authored more than 200 refereed papers, 20 patents, 4 books and a chapter in a textbook for European students. His most significant reasearch awards are: Cleantech Oscar Award at UNIDO Cleantech Open Global Ideas Competition (2015, Silicon Valley, USA); ARPA Institute Invention Competition Awards (2013 and 2014, Los Angeles, USA). He is member of Management Committees of the COST European Projects CA15107 Multi-Functional Nano-Carbon Composite Materials Network (2018 - 2020), MP1302 NanoSpectroscopy (2014-2017) and MP0901 Designing Novel Materials for Nanodevices - from Theory to Practice.

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Research Interest

ecologically clean and universal (any 2D material can be obtained)substrates rubbing technology for mass production of large size (any size) unique 2D sheets, their hybrid structures and devices on any rigid and flexible inorganic and organic substrates, as well as their dispersion and powder. The produced 2D atomic sheets consist of unique nanostripes (not achievable with other technologies) with any shape and size, while the nanostripes consist of arrays of quantum dots. These unique nanostripes are mono-, few- and multiple atomic layers of exfoliated flakes organized in self-assembled narrow bands of nanosized quantum dots, which are first reported by us. You can find information on the technology in http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2053-1613/aa783d/meta The Spanish patent http://invenes.oepm.es/InvenesWeb/detalle?referencia=P201431974 has been extended to EPO, WIPO and US.