Invited

Francesco Bonaccorso

Professor

Italian Graphene Research Centre (IIT)

Report Topic

The route towards the integration of 2D crystals in hydrogen technology

We will provide an overview on the exploitation of 2D crystals in the field of hydrogen production and transportation.
We will start the presentation with an overview on our industrial, scalable, reliable, and inexpensive production of 2D materials, [1-3] balancing the ease of fabrication and the final product quality. We will demonstrate the efficiency of the manufacturing of high-quality 2D crystals by wet-jet milling[2] and, in particular, the path towards industrial production of 2D hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN).[3,4]
Then, we will show our results on the formulation of h-BN pastes and the coating of different substrates for applications ranging from non-permeable pipe and connection systems for hydrogen transportation to industrial coating for marine application.[4,5] We will show how the production of 2D crystals by means of wet-jet milling[2] is a powerful pathway towards the development of 2D crystals-based devices,[6-12] offering massive integration flexibility compared to other production methodologies. [1,2]

References
[1] F. Bonaccorso, et al., Materials Today, 15, (2012), 564.
[2] F. Bonaccorso, et. al., Adv. Mater. 28, (2016), 6136.
[3] A. E. Del Rio Castillo et. al., Mater. Horiz. 5, (2018), 890.
[4] M. A. Molina-Garcia, et al., J. Phys. Mater 6 (2023), 035006
[5] O. Kaya, et al., J. Phys. Mater. 8, (2025), 042002.
[6] S. Pescetelli et al., Nature Energy 7, (2022), 597-607.
[7] P. Mariani, et al., Nature Comm. 15, (2024), 4552.
[8] A. Agresti, et al., Nature Comm 17, (2026), 3394.
[9] V. Mastronardi et al., International Journal of Hydrogen Energy 80, (2024), 261.
[10] S. Bellani et al., Advanced Functional Materials 29 (2019), 1807659.
[11] F. Bonaccorso, et. al., Science, 347, (2015), 1246501.
[12] E. Pomerantseva, et al., Science 366, (2019), eaan8285.

This project received funding from the Italian Ministero della Università e Ricerca (MUR) in the framework of the Project FIT4H2.
This project received also funding from the European Union’s LAPERITIVO Horizon Europe research and innovation action under grant agreement No. 101147311.

Biography

Francesco Bonaccorso is the co-founder and scientific director of BeDimensional S.p.A. He gained the PhD from the University of Messina. In 2009 he was awarded a Royal Society Newton International Fellowship at Cambridge University, and elected to a Research Fellowship at Hughes Hall, Cambridge, where he also obtained a MA. He was responsible in defining the ten years scientific and technological roadmap for the European Graphene Flagship, covering the role of Deputy of the Innovation for 6 years. He is currently member of the executive board of the Innovative Advanced Materials Initiative (IAM-I). He is/was involved in tens of European/National projects as coordinator or principal investigator. He is author of 19 patent families and more than 250 publications that have been cited more than 49000 times, with an H-index of 80. He delivered more than 260 invited presentations worldwide. He was featured as 2016 Emerging Investigator by J. Mater. Chem. A and in 2019 by ChemPlusChem. In 2018 he was recognized as Highly cited Scientist by Clarivate Analytics. In 2019 he received the Magister Peloritanus by Accademia Peloritana dei Pericolanti and ExAllievi Eccellenti by the University of Messina. He also co-founded Cambridge Graphene Ltd.