Although the method is facile and easily scaled up, there remains a concern about the degraded electrical performance for the chemically processed graphene. Controlled oxidation and reduction provides a versatile approach to tailor the electronic properties of graphene, as well as for mass production of graphene nanostructures for device application. As a zero band-gap semiconductor, graphene displays an ambipolar electric field effect where the polarity and concentration of charge carriers can be tuned continuously. Graphene has been extensively explored as electronic materials in a variety of applications. Main focus of his research is charge- and spin-transport phenomena in low-dimensional inorganic and molecular nano-structured materials and single nano-objects including carbon nanotubes, graphene, metallic and semiconducting nanowires, layered materials, and nanostructured (chiral) ferromagnetic and superconducting materials, and their implementation into nanoelectronic device-structures. He is currently the head of the national Nanoelectronics Strand of the Integrated Nanoscience Platform for Ireland (INSPIRE) which focuses on the expansion and integration of nanoscience and nanotechnology in Ireland. In 2007 he moved to the Trinity College Dublin (Ireland) taking a position as lecturer in the School of Physics and as principal investigator in the Centre for Research on Adaptive Nanostructures and Nanodevices. After his post-doc at the High-Magnetic Field Laboratory in Grenoble (France), he joined the CNRS as researcher at the National Pulsed-Magnetic Field Laboratory in Toulouse (France). He worked on his PhD thesis at the Max-Planck-Institute for Solid-State-Research in Stuttgart (Germany) and was awarded with the PhD degree in 2002 by the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland). Vojislav Krstić, School of Physics, Centre for Research on Adaptive Nanostructures and Nanodevices, Trinity College Dublin, Irelandĭr Vojislav Krstić carried-out his undergraduate studies in physics at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg (Germany). Then some of the main scientific challenges from the nanoelectronics and nanodevice perspective faced in the research work with these two types will be addressed and elaborated. In this talk first the basic structure and the resulting general properties of carbon nanotubes and graphene will be discussed. These two nano-materials have triggered enormous fundamental and applied research efforts over the last two decades spanning the range from nano-electronics, spintronics, energy-management as well as nano-biotechnology. This led to the experimental realisation of quasi-one-dimensional carbon nanotubes some ten years later, and more recently, to the access of quasi-two-dimensional graphene. Since the synthesis of the fullerenes in the late 1980’s, sp2-hybridised materials made purely of carbon have shifted into the focus of research. The element carbon and his possibility to form a range of different chemical bonds through hybridisation of electron orbitals has been fascinating natural scientists in Physics, Chemistry and Biology since centuries. Sp2-carbon: carbon nanotubes and graphene The final programme will be announced in the first week of November, 2010. Martin Leijnse, Niels Bohr Institute and the Nano-Science Center, University of Copenhagen.Physics and Astronomy, iNANO, Univ of Aarhus, DK Jie Sun, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden.Joerg R Jinschek, FEI Company, DTU CEN, Technical University of Denmark, DK.Klaus Bo Mogensen, DTU Nanotech, Technical University of Denmark, DK.Jun Yan, DTU Physics, Technical University of Denmark, DK.Daniel Engstrøm, DTU Nanotech, Technical University of Denmark, DK.Xiaohui Qiu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Natl.Antti Pekka Jauho, Technical University of Denmark, DK.Jesper Nygård, Nanoscience Center, University of Copenhagen, DK.Bao-Hang HAN, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Natl.Wenping Hu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Inst.Pagona Papakonstantinou, University of Ulster, UK.Sergey Kubatkin, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden.Cosmin Roman, Mikro- und Nanosysteme, ETH Zürich, Suisse.Yunqi Liu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Inst.Vojislav Krstic, CRANN, Trinity College Dublin.We are still working on the programme, but already now there is a strong lineup of exciting talks covering theory and experiments as well as fundamental and applied studies of carbon nanomaterials.