Chemical Access to 2D Topological Insulators via Delamination (A05)

• Subject Area: Solid State and Surface Chemistry, Material Synthesis
• Term: since 2020
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 417590517

Ruck’s project will focus on the development of appropriate wet chemical exfoliation techniques for TIs such as Bi14Rh3I9 and related layered compounds, Bi2TeX (X = Br, I), Bi2MnTe4, and GaGeTe. In particular, this includes the synthesis of high-quality crystals as starting materials, as well as the chemical and physical characterization of the products by quantum theory and various experimental techniques. Thus, the project aims at chemically and structurally defined 2DMs with 1 to 10 layers and lateral dimensions of at least 1 μm.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1415: Chemistry of Synthetic Two-Dimensional Materials
• Applicant Institution: Technische Universität Dresden
• Project Head: Professor Dr. Michael Ruck