The 247th Meeting of the Electrocemical Society (ESC) took place in Montréal, Canada, from May 18 – May 22, 2025. This international conference brings together scientists, engineers, and researchers from academia, industry, and government laboratories to share results and discuss issues on related topics through a variety of formats. Among these our PhD student, Muahmmad Ali, had the privilege of presenting his recent work on Silicon/Graphene Heterostructures — a promising direction for next-generation anode materials in Li-ion batteries!

In his talk, titled “Formation of Silicon/Graphene Heterostructures Through Co-Gas Phase Synthesis”, he shared a novel all-gas-phase synthesis approach that combines the high capacity of silicon with the mechanical stability and conductivity of graphene — tackling some of the major challenges in battery anode design.

We encourage our students to go to just such valuable international conferences and share their results with the scientific community as often as possible. And the feedback is clear. “It was a great opportunity to connect with fellow researchers and exchange ideas on advancing energy materials through interdisciplinary collaboration.”, Muhammad Ali wrote in this LinkedIn post after the conference.

This year, many 2D-MATURE members will be also present at the 15th edition of the Graphene Conference (June 25-28, San Sebastián) and MRS Fall Meeting (November 30 – December 5, Boston), where we will host our own syposium “Scalable 2D Materials—Synthesis, Processing, Metrology and Device Implementation”. Call for paper is open already. See you soon!