It is known that the kinetics is far more important than thermodynamics in the controlling of crystal growth. In the first talk, I will briefly introduce the fundamentals of kinetics that governing the crystal formation and followed with some of our recent studies on graphene CVD growth. A few growth kinetic related cases in graphene CVD growth will be explained. Their impact on graphene CVD growth and quality control will be addressed as well. With more than 10 years’ efforts, the mechanisms of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) growth at atomic level and potential routes towards the chirality growth becomes more and more clear. In the second talk, I will present four aspects regarding the mechanism of SWCNTs growth and the chirality-selection during growth.

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Feng Ding obtained his BS, MS and PhD degrees from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Fudan University and Nanjing University in 1993, 1996 and 2002, respectively. Then he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Gothenburg University and Chalmers University in Sweden from 2003 to 2005. From 2005, he joined Rice University as a Research Scientist until the end of 2008. From 2009-2016, he joined the Institute of Textile and Clothing of Hong Kong Polytechnic University as an Assistant Professor and Associate Professor (from 2013). From 2017, he joined UNIST as a Distinguished Professor and the IBS-CMCM as a group leader.

Prof. Ding’s research group’s research interests mainly focus on the computational method development, theoretical exploration of various carbon materials and 2D materials, especially on their formation mechanism, the kinetics of their nucleation, growth and etching. Prof. Ding has published more than 160 SCI papers in leading journals of natural science, with ~ 30 in Nature serious journals, PNAS, Sci Adv., PRL, JACS, ACIE. These publications were cited by > 5200 times (SCI) and his personal h-index is 40