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Publication Highlight – NanoscaleHoriz 2025
Precise control over the charge-state of radical molecules on surfaces is essential for engineering correlated electronic states in nanoscale architectures.
Nanoscale Horiz., 2025, 10, 2365-2373 and 2138
Publication Highlight – ACSNano 2025
High-precision molecular manipulation techniques are used to control the assembly of radical molecules (S=1/2) on a superconductor. Here we present a low-temperature STM and STS study of molecules hosting single electrons on superconducting Pb(111).
ACS Nano, 2025, 19(3), 3403-3413
Publication Highlight – AdvSci 2025
We use on-surface coordination chemistry to synthesize on Ag(111) and superconducting Pb(111) iron-based spin chains that reveal low-energy spin excitations.
Adv. Sci., 2025, 12(7), 2412351/1-7 and 2570043
Publication Highlight – CrystEngComm 2024
A new hexadecanuclear nanocluster with a mixed-valence {Co16} core has been prepared and fully characterized. Predominantly intracluster ferromagnetic exchange interactions were measured.
CrystEngComm, 2024, 26(32), 4264-4271 and 4251
Publication Highlight – JPhysChemC 2023
Hydrogen-bonded assemblies of N-doped heterocyclic triimidazole molecules on a Ag(111) substrate were investigated using scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and low-energy electron diffraction (LEED) techniques. The LEED data are consistent with simulations based on a distinct overlayer on the Ag(111) lattice. Density functional theory (DFT) calculations support the experimental results.
J. Phys. Chem. C, 2023, 127(47), 23000-23009
Publication Highlight – ACIE 2021
We report the on-surface reaction on Ag(111) for the synthesis of two-dimensional N-doped graphene sheets possessing a honeycomb Kagome lattice. STM, AFM and DFT methods are applied to scrutinize the structural and electronic properties. We demonstrate the semiconducting character of the lattice and the emergence of Kagome flat bands near the Fermi level.
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2021, 60(15), 8370-8375
Publication Highlight – JACS 2020
Nitrogen-doped porous graphene nanoribbons (N-GNRs) were synthesized on Ag(111). A combination of scanning tunneling microscopy, atomic force microscopy, scanning tunneling spectroscopy and density functional theory has been applied for the characterization of the nanoribbon.
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2020, 142(29), 12568-12573