A simple model to explain graphene Moirés on single crystal metal surfaces Graphene revealed to be the most outstanding material of the decade. Scanning Tunneling Microscope (STM) images have proved the existence of Moiré superstructures on epitaxial graphene due to the spatial coincidence of the atomic periodicity of the graphene…
A tutorial Chemical Society Review On-surface synthesis can be regarded as an efficient means to build new molecular species by using bottom-up strategies. Recently, a collection of different reactions leading to large tailor-made organic molecules on single-crystal metal surfaces has been reported. The fundamental mechanisms controlling these reactions can be…
Scholarship Application Deadline Extended to April 30th 2011 The Welch Scholarship provides $15000 support once per year to a promising scholar who wishes to study vacuum science, techniques or their application in any field, and wants to spend a year in a research lab in another country. This is an…
New bottom-up strategies for molecular assembly to tailor-build new molecules The appearance on the technological scene of new electronic devices based on organic molecules is awaited with much expectation since they promise to be inexpensive, flexible, faster and smaller than those based on silicon technology. However, molecular electronics faces important…
Recently published in Chemistry, a European Journal. Vacuum deposition of a planarized PAH, as C60H30 , on a single-crystal surface, as Pt(111), leads to surface induced chirality caused by the different landing side of the molecule, as depicted by in-situ STM images. We show that the surface discriminate the landing…
Published in Phys. Rev. Lett. by ESISNA Graphene is one of the most outstanding materials of the decade. Among all the different proposed applications and protocols to growth it, epitaxial graphene on single-crystal metal surfaces have acquired a significant relevance as a model system where to rationalize their atomic structure,…
What you see it is not what it is! Chemical and morphological changes in the tip are frequent during an experimental STM session. We have shown the effect of different tip apexes on the appearance of atomic features of STM images by relating experimental STM images with DFT calculations. The…
Molecular networks provide new surface functionality and could enable the formation of more complex structures Nanoporous molecular systems have become an interesting field. They are well reported as templates for positioning nano-objects and for having remarkable applications in catalysis. Now metal-organic monolayers can be grown in a controlled way using…
Twenty-five years ago today, on September 4, 1985, the buckyball was discovered at Rice University, and Google is commemorating that scientific discovery with an interactive doodle logo on its homepage El sábado 4 de Septiembre, Google ha colocado en su página de inicio un nuevo logotipo -mejor conocido como “doodle”-,…
Nanociencia y su impacto social DEL 19 AL 23 DE JULIO Se celebró el curso Nanociencia y su impacto social. Participaron los siguientes ponentes: Nazario Martín León; Mª Ángeles Herranz Astudillo;Eugenio Coronado Miralles; Jean M. Lehn; José López Carrascosa; José Ángel Martín Gago; José Manuel Pingarrón Carrazón; Fernando Briones; José…