foreword On behalf of the Organising and the International Scientific Committees we take great pleasure in welcoming you to Dresden (Germany) for the 2nd edition of the European Conference on Chemistry of Two-Dimensional Materials (chem2Dmat2019). During the last years, the chemistry of graphene has played an ever-increasing role in the large-scale production, chemical functionalization and processing as well as in numerous applications of such material, and it has been expanded to various new 2D inorganic and organic materials. This conference aims at providing a forum to the rapidly growing community of scientists mastering the chemical approaches to 2D materials in order to fabricate systems and devices exhibiting tunable performance. The chemical approach offers absolute control over the structure of 2D materials at the atomic- or molecular-level and will thus serve as enabling strategy to develop unprecedented multifunctional systems, of different complexity, featuring exceptional physical or chemical properties with full control over the correlation between structure and function. The 2nd edition of chem2Dmat will cover all areas related to 2D materials' chemistry spanning their synthesis as well as their functionalization, using covalent and non-covalent approaches, for composites, foams and coatings, membranes, (bio-)sensing, (electro- and photo-)catalysis, energy conversion, harvesting & storage, electronics, nanomedicine and biomaterials. chem2Dmat2019 Highlights: • Expected attendance: 200 participants • 34 Keynotes & Invited Speakers • 60 posters • Nearly 65 oral contributions • 1/2-day Industrial Forum in parallel to get an updated understanding of Graphene based technologies • 5 awards to PhD students chem2Dmat2019 is now an established event, attracting global participant’s intent on sharing, exchanging and exploring new avenues of graphene-related scientific and commercial developments. We are also indebted to the following Scientific Institutions, Companies and Government Agencies for their help and/or financial support: Technische Universität Dresden, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation), Advanced Materials/Wiley, Journal of Carbon Research/MDPI, Materials Horizons-Nanoscale Horizons/RSC and Nanoscale-Nanoscale Advances/RSC. We also would like to thank all the exhibitors, speakers and participants that join us this year. In addition, thanks must be given to the staff of all the organizing institutions whose hard work has helped planning this conference. We truly hope that chem2Dmat2019 serves as an international platform for communication between science and business. Hope to see you again in the next edition of chem2Dmat to be held in 2021. main organisers committees Organising Committee Antonio Correia (Phantoms Foundation, Spain) Xinliang Feng (TU Dresden / cfaed, Germany) Paolo Samorí (Université de Strasbrourg / CNRS, France) local organizing committee Xinliang Feng (TU Dresden / cfaed, Germany) Thomas Heine (TU Dresden Germany) Michael Ruck (TU-Dresden, Germany) Gianaurelio Cuniberti (TU-Dresden, Germany) international scientific committee Alberto Bianco (CNRS - Institut de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, France) Francesco Bonaccorso (IIT-Graphene Labs / BeDimensional SpA, Italy) Cinzia Casiraghi (University of Manchester, United Kingdom) Jonathan Coleman (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) Xinliang Feng (Dresden University of Technology, Germany) Andrea Ferrari (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom) Andreas Hirsch (University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany) Ian Kinloch (University of Manchester, United Kingdom) Klaus Müllen (MPI Mainz, Germany) Konstantin Novoselov (University of Manchester, United Kingdom) Vincenzo Palermo (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden) Anne Pichon (Nature Chemistry, UK) Maurizio Prato (University of Trieste, Italy) Stephan Roche (ICREA – ICN2, Spain) Ester Vázquez (University of Castilla-la Mancha, Spain) Secretaries Natalia León Martínez (Phantoms Foundation, Spain) Concepción Narros Hernández (Phantoms Foundation, Spain) José Luis Roldán Hernández (Phantoms Foundation, Spain) 5 awards sponsors 6 exhibitors Abalonyx AS is a Norway based company engaged in production and R&D related to graphene oxide and graphene oxide derivatives since 2008. We produce and sell single layer graphene oxide (GO) and thermally reduced graphene oxide (rGO) in Kg-quantities and are presently developing several derivatives for special applications, including protective coatings for autoparts, a process for remediation of water contaminated with heavy metals and radionuclides based on a GO-based scavenger-system. We are also involved in collaborative development of modified GO and rGO for use in composites for construction materials, certain sports equipment and energy storage in several collaborative projects. Our sister company, Graphene Batteries AS uses a special rGO-grade in its battery developments. We actively work with our customers to tune our GO and rGO to their needs. www.abalonyx.no Graphene Batteries, based in Norway, is developing safe and durable graphene based high energy battery materials. The company aims to build an IP portfolio and later license it for production. Graphene Batteries is mainly focused on Lithium-sulfur batteries, and has developed an improved cathode for such LiS batteries. The Company explains that its graphene derivative helps in solving two of the challenges that hold Li-S technology back and it sees possible applications in Drone batteries in the near future - which could find benefits in the light weight of Li-S batteries compared to current Li-Ion solutions. http://graphenebatteries.no/ Sixonia Tech GmbH is a technology-driven start-up company based in Germany, spun-out of the Chair for Molecular Functional Materials at TU Dresden. Our core technology is the electrochemical production and functionalization of large-flake, few-layer graphenes and its processing into various formulations. We offer development services and customized formulations to our mainly industrial customers depending on their individual needs, ranging from simple dispersions and pastes to high-performance inks and composites. www.sixonia-tech.com 7 Speakers Index alphabetical order page Mohsen Aadeli (Freie Universitaet, Germany) Oral Study on the Mechanism of Graphene/Pathogen interactions 52 Jorge Eduardo Adatti Estevez (Infineon, Germany) High-yield production and characterization of graphene-based chemiresistors for InvitedIF environmental sensing 47 Ishfaq Ahmad (UNIST, South Korea) Robust fused aromatic pyrazine-based two-dimensional network for stably Poster cocooning iron nanoparticles as an oxygen reduction electrocatalyst 115 Adriana Alieva (University of Manchester, UK) Oral Effect of Graphene on the Crystallisation of Glycine 53 Stevan Andric (Institute of Chemistry, Technology, and Metallurgy, Serbia) Humidity sensing with Langmuir-Blodgett assembled graphene films from liquid Poster phase 116 Florian M. Arnold (TU Dresden, Germany) The Influence of the Twist Angle on the Properties of Transition Metal Poster Dichalcogenide Bilayers 117 Sehrish Aslam (Harbin Institute of Technology, China) Mixed-dimensional Heterostructure of Graphene Foam for Tunable Ecofriendly Poster Hydrogen Evolution Reaction 118 Mhamed Assebban (ICMol - UV, Spain / ZMP - FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany) Towards optimized preparation of few-layer antimonene and unveiling its Oral oxidation tendency 54 Kannan Balasubramanian (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Germany) The unique interplay between interfacial chemistry and electronic structure in Oral graphene 55 Shashank Balasubramanyam (TU/e, The Netherlands) Edge-site nano-engineering of WS2 by low temperature plasma-enhanced atomic Poster layer deposition for electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution 119 José J. Baldoví (Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, Germany) Poster Ab initio study of ultrasensitive H2S gas sensors based WS2 hybrid materials 120 Tanmay Banerjee (Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Germany) 2D covalent organic frameworks with built-in functional groups by Oral sub-stoichiometric topological design 56 Cian Bartlam (University of Manchester, UK) Nanoscale Infrared Characterisation of Functional Groups on Two-dimensional Oral Materials 57 Thomas Bein (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany) Invited Optoelectronic Processes in Covalent Organic Frameworks 24 Alberto Bianco (IBMC-CNRS-Université de Strasbourg, France) Invited Multifunctional biodegradable graphene-based materials for cancer therapy 25 Luca Bignardi (University of Trieste, Italy) Oral Highly-ordered single-layer MoS2 on the anisotropic Ag(110) 58 Nerea Bilbao (KU Leuven, Belgium) Oral On-Surface Synthesis of Covalent Organic Frameworks 59 8 page Matias Blanco (University of Padova, Italy) Enhanced carbocatalytic alcohol oxidation by Graphene Acid: Mechanistic Oral insights for the control of the selectivity 60 Ivan Bobrinetskiy (Biosense Institute, Serbia) In-plane junctions in graphene field-effect transistors generated by Oral photochemical mask-less patterning 61 Francesco Bonaccorso (IIT-Graphene Labs / BeDimensional, Italy) Invited Liquid phase production of 2D crystals for energy applications 26 Anton Brown (KU Leuven, Belgium) Self-Assembled Monolayers as Templates for Linearly Nanopatterned Covalent Poster Chemical Functionalization of Graphite and Graphene Surfaces 121 Alexandra Burger (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany) Poster Electrochemical Exfoliation