Speaker: Trevor David Rhone, Assistant Professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

When the dimensionality of an electron system is reduced from three dimensions to two dimensions, new behavior emerges. This has been demonstrated in two-dimensional (2D) materials such as graphene – a single atomic layer of graphite – which was discovered in 2004. Many years later, in 2017, 2D materials with intrinsic magnetic order were discovered, giving rise to a new frontier in science exploration and industrial innovation. However many challenges in the search for new 2D magnetic materials exist. Some estimates place the number of materials that exist in nature as large as 10100. Is it possible to efficiently explore this vast chemical space in order to accelerate the discovery of 2D magnetic materials? Can we predict their properties?