Self powered "Graphene Related Autonomous Smart Sensors System" with graphene based DSC or Perovskyte solar cells
Enrico LEONARDI (DYESOL Italia)
Graphene is a rapidly rising star on the horizon of materials science and condensed-matter physics. This material exhibits exceptionally high crystal and electronic quality, and, despite its short history, has already revealed a great variety of new physics and potential applications. Whereas one can be certain of the realness of applications, in the last few years graphene based commercial devices appeared on the market with application fields very different from each other.
More generally, graphene represents a conceptually new class of materials that are only one atom thick, and, on this basis, offers new inroads into low-dimensional physics that has never ceased to surprise and continues to provide a fertile ground for applications. As mentioned Graphene has reached the TRL that allow its use as key component in a variety of technological devices more or less sophisticated. To give a concrete example of its possible industrial applications this presentation will be focused on the outcomes of GRASS project that has the aim to realise a self-powered gas sensor device for remote applications with key components (Solar cells, batteries & gas sensors) based on graphene.
