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Tunable topological phases in nanographene-based spin-1/2 alternating-exchange Heisenberg chains arxiv.org/abs/2402.13590 Combining STM and theory, we explore their properties, such as the dispersion relation for triplons. Great collaboration with groups of J Fernández Rossier Xinliang Feng

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Just out in Nature Nanotechnology 🥳 - we show how to do photochemistry with submolecular precision☀️🔬⚗️ Great teamwork with IPCMS CNRS 🌍 Fyzikální ústav AV ČR Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research !🍻 nature.com/articles/s4156… More below 👇(1/n)

Congrats to Shantanu Mishra from Leo Gross group and nanotech@surfaces Lab for winning the Gerhard Ertl YI Award 2024! Well deserved, welcome to the club!! 🥳

Congratulations on the Gerhard Ertl Young Investigator Award, Shantanu!!! Shantanu Mishra

I’m thrilled to share that a new paper has been published as the cover story of Nature, with the results of the paper charting the path towards quantum error correction. IBM Quantum Blog: research.ibm.com/blog/nature-ql… Nature article: nature.com/articles/s4158…

Cyclocarbon C18 (doubly aromatic) is a freak, C16 (doubly anti-aromatic) a superfreak, C13 is the freakiest of them all: triplet ground state, more or less delocalized carbene center, and neither Baird's nor Hueckel's rule can be applied. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

At least as nice as an egg-shaped molecule in Science: these two small guys made it safe out of their eggs today 🎉

3 days old, almost grown up already

#Scanningtunnelingmicroscopy and #atomicforcemicroscopy reveal the unusual phenomenon of SOMO-HOMO inversion in nonbenzenoid open-shell polycyclic conjugated hydrocarbon. Shantanu Mishra Diego Peña Gil Leo Gross USC IBM Europe #Openaccess: go.acs.org/9Kr

Visiting Laser-STM labs of Repp and Huber groups in Regensburg with Diego Peña Gil. They have great sunglasses!

🎉🥳 congratulations Shantanu!

Time-resolved excited-state spectroscopy of molecules using back-and-forth tunneling of single electrons with different energies, spin-to-charge conversion, and AFM for charge detection. Out now: nature.com/articles/s4156… (Not an easy read - but very rewarding if you take the time)

Very nice News & Views by Harry Moenig. The ping-pong analogy works quite well nature.com/articles/s4156…

Congratulations to Lisanne Sellies for receiving the Gustav Hertz Prize of the DPG for the develpment of ESR-AFM. 🎉🎉🎉dpg-physik.de/auszeichnungen…

In STM with a CO tip, molecular orbital densities look totally different at different tip heigths. Here is why and how to account for it. Teaser: It's NOT due to different decay constants of s- and p- wavefunctions, as one might have guessed (!) pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Excited to share that the acene family has grown with its longest member yet, pentadecacene (15ac), which we synthesized and characterized on a gold surface. bettinger-lab Ralf Tonner-Zech. Congrats to Zilin, Jakob, John, Tim, Laurentia, Felix! European Research Council (ERC) SFB 1083 ProLOEWE.

'In Germany in the 1930s, scientific institutions and societies failed at every level to offer any significant resistance to Nazism,' writes Phil Ball. 'Donald Trump’s United States is not Hitler’s Germany. But the point is surely to learn from it anyway.' chemistryworld.com/opinion/scient…

Coupling molecules with triplet ground states ferromagnetically to get high-spin molecular chains. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

Our latest, where we propose and demonstrate a route for the synthesis of organic ferromagnetic spin chains through covalent coupling of triplet molecular building blocks. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…