A few weeks ago, Johan Carlsson, senior scientist at Accelrys, shared results from his work with graphene. In this 45 minute webinar, Johan illustrates how modern simulation methods can be used to understand the influence of defects on the properties of graphene.

In the webinar he covers how:

• Ab-initio methods combined with thermodynamics can be used to determine which defects might occur during the synthesis and subsequent processing such as oxidation
  
• Electronic structure calculations can be used to characterize the influence of these defects on the electronic properties of graphene and which implications it might have for device applications
  
• Atomistic simulations can provide insight on the implications of the two-dimensionality for the stability of individual graphene sheets
  

You can listen to the recording of his webinar here: http://accelrys.com/events/webinars/contract-research-fall2010/graphene-request.php