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Michael J. Bojdys joined the Charles University in Prague (Czech Republic) in 2014 as an Assistant Professor. His current research interest lies in the field of functional nanomaterials for semiconductor applications, gas storage and catalysis. Previously, Michael was holder of a research fellowship of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) at the Technische Universität Berlin (Germany). He worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Liverpool (UK) from 2010 to 2013. He completed his PhD thesis between 2006 and 2009 "On new allotropes and nanostructures of carbon nitrides" at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces in Potsdam (Germany). In 2006 he graduated as Master of Natural Sciences at the University of Cambridge (UK).
Publications

WO2016027042 (A1) – Two-dimensional carbon nitride material and method of preparation

Cooper, A. I. and Bojdys, M. J. (2016). Two-dimensional carbon nitride material and method of preparation. WO2016027042 (A1).

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Graphitic carbon nitride has been prepared and its structure confirmed by extensive characterization. This material has useful electronic, in particular semiconducting, properties. Crystalline thin films have been prepared. Synthesis may be carried out by condensation of unsaturated carbon- and nitrogen- containing compound(s) in inert solvent such as a salt melt, forming graphitic carbon nitride at a gas-liquid or solid-liquid interface.

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Highlights

“2D Materials – Beyond Silicone and Graphene” – by Mara Staffilani

“Michael J. Bojdys, head of the Functional Nanomaterials group at the Charles University in Prague, describes a class of [graphene-]analogous, two-dimensional sheets made from a mix of carbon and nitrogen that are here to complement the one property that the wonder material graphene has not: a useful electronic band gap.” – Dr Mara Staffilani

MaterialsViews 2016. [Link]

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Highlight for the article: Bojdys,* M. J. Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics 2016, 217, 232–241. [DOI: 10.1002/macp.201500312]

Publications

Design Strategies in Hydrothermal Polymerization of Polyimides

Baumgartner, B.; Bojdys, M. J.; Skrinjar, P.; Unterlass,* M. M. Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics 2015, DOI: 10.1002/macp.201500287.

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Hydrothermal polymerization, a benign synthesis for aromatic polyimides, is studied in detail to gain greater insight in the ongoing mechanisms. By performing an extensive set of experiments at various parameters, polyimides of outstanding crystallinity are obtained and could thus refine their crystal structure from powder XRD data. Initial condensation intermediates could isolate, which indicates that HTP is mechanistically closely related to classical step-growth polycondensations.

DOI: 10.1002/macp.201500287

This is the pre-peer reviewed version of the following article: Baumgartner, B.; Bojdys, M. J.; Skrinjar, P.; Unterlass,* M. M. Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics 2015, DOI: 10.1002/macp.201500287, which has been published in final form at [DOI: 10.1002/macp.201500287].

Publications

2D or not 2D-layered functional (C, N) materials “beyond silicon and graphene”

Bojdys,* M. J. Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics 2015, DOI: 10.1002/macp.201500312.

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As of 2015, the number of mobile phone subscriptions outstrips Earth’s human population. Critical raw materials (CRMs) and silicon, won in energy intensive refinement make up the electronics in all these devices. While graphene still has to deliver on its potential in electronic applications, we look to 2D polymer materials that go beyond silicon and graphene.

DOI: 10.1002/macp.201500312

This is the pre-peer reviewed version of the following article: Bojdys,* M. J. Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics 2015, DOI: 10.1002/macp.201500312, which has been published in final form at [DOI: 10.1002/macp.201500312].

News

Dr. Michael J. Bojdys receives ERC Starting Grant

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For the second time in recent years the European Research Council (ERC) has awarded one of the prestigious ERC Starting Grants to a scientist of the Department of Organic Chemistry at the Charles University in Prague. Materials chemist Dr. Michael J. Bojdys received this grant endowed with up to 1.5 Million Euro to promote basic research on “functional nanomaterials beyond graphene” over the next five years. Function and structure of these organic materials beyond graphene can provide opportunities for designing new generations of electronic devices such as field-effect transistors, gas sensors etc.

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Highlights

Triazine-based graphitc carbon nitride (TGCN) featured in “Stanene the next miracle material?” – by Michael Gross

“Ten years after the discovery of graphene, analogous two-dimensional sheets made from other elements, including tin, are emerging as competitors for the miracle material.” – Gross, M.

Chemistry & Industry 2014, 78, 24. [DOI: 10.1002/cind.789_5.x]
Highlight for the article: Algara-Siller, G.; Severin, N.; Chong, S. Y.; Björkman, T.; Palgrave, R. G.; Laybourn, A.; Antonietti, M.; Khimyak, Y. Z.; Krasheninnikov, A. V.; Rabe, J. P.; Kaiser, U.; Cooper,* A. I.; Thomas, A.; Bojdys,* M. J. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2014, 53, 7450–7455, [DOI: 10.1002/anie.201402191]