Our partner “Sapienza” University of Rome hosted the 28th International Conference on Raman Spectroscopy (ICORS 2024) from the 28th of July to the 2nd of August 2024 in Rome, Italy.

ICORS is the main event of the Raman community, held every 2 years. The 2024 edition gathered approximately 1,000 participants. Professor Tullio Scopigno, from the Physics Department, acted as the general chair of the conference, as a recognition of his expertise in Raman and its applications to 2D materials in particular.

During the conference, there were different tracks, or macro areas, corresponding to diverse Raman applications. Among them, “materials” and “industrial applications”, relevant to our GRAPHERGIA project. In each macro area there were different tracks, such as “2D materials” and “2D Materials and Moire”. In the corresponding sessions, Professor Scopigno and his colleagues from the “Sapienza” University of Rome offered several talks related to graphene and graphene-based heterostructures. As a curious fact, 15 of these talks contained the word “graphene” in their title or abstract. Tullio Scopigno mentioned GRAPHERGIA in some acknowledgement slides of his talk.

“It has been a great pleasure to host ICORS 2024, the 28th International Conference on Raman Spectroscopy, at “Sapienza” University in Rome. Raman is pivotal for the synthesis, characterization and applications of graphene and its related heterostructures. We had several dedicated sessions, among them “2D Materials” and “2D Materials and Moire”, and one plenary talk related to application of graphene as saturable absorber for ultrafast lasers used for tumour imaging”, highlighted Professor Scopigno.

More about ICORS 2024

ICORS 2024 was organized in different macro areas, covering the following list of topics: ultrafast processes, coherent scattering, biomedical imaging, pharmaceuticals, disease characterization, low dimensional materials, extreme conditions, cultural heritage, forensic science, metrology, environmental and remote sensing, surface and resonance enhancements, gas phase spectroscopy, planetary and astronomical physical chemistry, energy harvesting and transport, optoelectronics, industrial applications and novel instrumentation, multi-dimensional vibrational spectroscopy, X-ray scattering, quantum light processes.

The conference macro areas were:

  • Biology and Biomedicine.
  • Industrial Applications.
  • Materials.
  • Non-linear and Time-resolved.
  • Novel Raman approaches.
  • Raman Imaging.
  • Raman in Society.
  • SERS/TERS and Plasmonics.
  • Theory and Computation.