Publications 2021

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Short-Channel Double-Gate FETs with Atomically Precise Graphene Nanoribbons

Z. Mutlu, Y. Lin, G. Borin Barin, Z. Zhang, G. Pitner S. Wang, R. Darawish, M. Di Giovannantonio, H. Wang, J. Cai, M. Passlack, C. H. Diaz, A. Narita, K. Müllen, F. R. Fischer, P. Bandaru, A. C. Kummel, P. Ruffieux, R. Fasel, and J. Bokor

IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM), 2021, pp. 37.4.1-37.4.4 (2021). DOI: 10.1109/IEDM19574.2021.9720620

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Spin-dependent vibronic response of a carbon radical ion in two-dimensional WS2

K.A. Cochrane, J.-H. Lee, C. Kastl, J.B. Haber, T. Zhang, A. Kozhakhmetov, J.A. Robinson, M. Terrones, J. Repp, J.B. Neaton, A. Weber-Bargioni, B. Schuler

Nat. Commun. 12, 7287 (2021). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-27585-x

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Hydrogen bonded trimesic acid networks on Cu(111) reveal how basic chemical properties are imprinted in HR-AFM images

P. Zahl, A.V. Yakutovich, E. Ventura-Macías, J. Carracedo-Cosme, C. Romero-Muñiz, P. Pou, J.T. Sadowski, M.S. Hybertsen, R. Pérez 

Nanoscale 13 (44), 18473-18482 (2021). DOI: 10.1039/D1NR04471K

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Lightwave-driven scanning tunnelling spectroscopy of atomically precise graphene nanoribbons

S. E. Ammerman, V. Jelic, Y. Wei, V. N. Breslin, M. Hassan, N. Everett, S. Lee, Q. Sun, C. A. Pignedoli, P. Ruffieux, R. Fasel & T. L. Cocker

Nat. Commun. 12, 6794 (2021). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-26656-3

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Observation of fractional edge excitations in nanographene spin chains

S. Mishra, G. Catarina, F. Wu, R. Ortiz, D. Jacob, K. Eimre, J. Ma, C. A. Pignedoli, X. Feng, P. Ruffieux, J. Fernández-Rossier, and R. Fasel

Nature 598 (7880), 287-292 (2021). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-021-03842-3

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Engineering and probing atomic quantum defects in 2D semiconductors: A perspective

J.A. Robinson, B. Schuler

Appl. Phys. Lett. 119, 140501 (2021). DOI: 10.1063/5.0065185

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Asymmetric Elimination Reaction on Chiral Metal Surfaces

S. Stolz, M. Danese, M. Di Giovannantonio, J. I. Urgel, Q. Sun, A. Kinikar, M. Bommert, S. Mishra, H. Brune, O. Gröning, D. Passerone, R. Widmer

Adv. Mater. 202104481 (2021). DOI: 10.1002/adma.202104481

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Common workflows for computing material properties using different quantum engines

S. P. Huber, E. Bosoni, M. Bercx, J. Bröder, A. Degomme, V. Dikan, K. Eimre, E. Flage-Larsen, A. Garcia, L. Genovese, D. Gresch, C. Johnston, G. Petretto, S. Poncé, G.-M. Rignanese, C. J. Sewell, B. Smit, V. Tseplyaev, M. Uhrin, D. Wortmann, A. V. Yakutovich, A. Zadoks, P. Zarabadi-Poor, B. Zhu, N. Marzari, G. Pizzi

npj Comput. Mater. 7, 136 (2021). DOI: 10.1038/s41524-021-00594-6

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Evolution of the Topological Energy Band in Graphene Nanoribbons

Q. Sun, Y. Yan, X. Yao, K. Müllen, A. Narita, R. Fasel, P. Ruffieux

J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 12 (35), 8679–8684 (2021). DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.1c02541

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Robust, Multi-Length-Scale, Machine Learning Potential for Ag−Au Bimetallic Alloys from Clusters to Bulk Materials

C. M. Andolina, M. Bon, D. Passerone, W. A. Saidi

J. Phys. Chem. C 125 (31), 17438−17447 (2021). DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.1c04403

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On-surface synthesis of organocopper metallacycles through activation of inner diacetylene moieties 

B. Cirera, D. Écija,N. Martín, W. Auwärter, P. Jelinek, M. Bommert, Q. Sun, S. Stolz, R. Widmer, R. Fasel, J. Santos, M. Di Giovannantonio, J. I. Urgel, A. Riss and P. Mutombo, 

Chem. Sci. 12 (38), 12806-12811 (2021). DOI: 10.1039/D1SC03703J

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On-Surface Synthesis and Characterization of Super-nonazethrene

E. Turco, S. Mishra, J. Melidonie, K. Eimre, S. Obermann, C. A. Pignedoli, R. Fasel, X. Feng, P. Ruffieux

J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 12 (34), 8314–8319 (2021). DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.1c02381

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Optimized Graphene Electrodes for contacting Graphene Nanoribbons

O. Braun, J. Overbeck, M. El Abbassi, S. Käser, R. Furrer, A. Olziersky, A. Flasby, G. Borin Barin, R. Darawish, K. Müllen, P. Ruffieux, I. Shorubalko, R. Fasel, M. Perrin, M. Calame

Carbon 184, 331-339 (2021). DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2021.08.001

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Controllable p-Type Doping of 2D WSe2 via Vanadium Substitution

A. Kozhakhmetov, S. Stolz, A. M. Z. Tan, R. Pendurthi, S. Bachu, F. Turker, N. Alem, J. Kachian, S. Das, R. G. Hennig, O. Gröning, B. Schuler, J. A. Robinson

Adv. Funct. Mater. 31 (42), 2105252 (2021). DOI: 10.1002/adfm.202105252

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Efficient photogeneration of nonacene on nanostructured graphene

C. G. Ayani, M. Pisarra, J. I. Urgel, J. J. Navarro, C. Díaz, H. Hayashi, H. Yamada, F. Calleja, R. Miranda, R. Fasel. F. Martín, A. Vazquez De Parga

Nanoscale Horiz. 6 (9), 744-750 (2021). DOI: 10.1039/D1NH00184A

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On-surface synthesis of π-conjugated ladder-type polymers comprising nonbenzenoid moieties

J. I. Urgel, J. Bock, M. Di Giovannantonio, P. Ruffieux, C. A. Pignedoli, M. Kivala, R. Fasel

RSC Adv. 11 (38), 23437 (2021). DOI: 10.1039/D1RA03253D

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On-surface activation of benzylic C–H bonds for the synthesis of pentagon-fused graphene nanoribbons

X. Xu, M. Di Giovannantonio, J. I. Urgel, C. A. Pignedoli, P. Ruffieux, K. Müllen, R. Fasel, A. Narita

Nano Res. 14, 4754-4759 (2021). DOI: 10.1007/s12274-021-3419-2

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The role of chalcogen vacancies for atomic defect emission in MoS2

E. Mitterreiter, B. Schuler, A. Micevic, D. Hernangómez-Pérez, K. Barthelmi, K. A. Cochrane, J. Kiemle, F. Sigger, J. Klein, E. Wong, E. S. Barnard, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, M. Lorke, F. Jahnke, J. J. Finley, A. M. Schwartzberg, D. Y. Qiu, S. Refaely-Abramson, A. W. Holleitner, A. Weber-Bargioni, C. Kastl

Nat. Commun. 12 (1), 3822 (2021). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-24102-y

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Metallic carbon nanotube quantum dots with broken symmetries as a platform for tunable terahertz detection

G. Buchs, M. Marganska, J. W. González, K. Eimre, C. A. Pignedoli, D. Passerone, A. Ayuela, O. Gröning, and D. Bercioux

Appl. Phys. Rev. 8 (2), 021406 (2021). DOI: 10.1063/5.0018944

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Edge Disorder in Bottom-up Zigzag Graphene Nanoribbons: Implications for Magnetism and Quantum Electronic Transport

M. Pizzochero, G. Borin Barin, K. Čerņevičs, S. Wang, P. Ruffieux, R. Fasel, O.V. Yazyev

J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 12 (19), 4692−4696 (2021). DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.1c00921

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Large magnetic exchange coupling in rhombus-shaped nanographenes with zigzag periphery

S. Mishra, X. Yao, Q. Chen, K. Eimre, O. Gröning, R. Ortiz, M. Di Giovannantonio, J. C. Sancho-García, J. Fernández-Rossier, C. A. Pignedoli, K. Müllen, P. Ruffieux, A Narita and R. Fasel

Nat. Chem. 13, 581-586 (2021). DOI: 10.1038/s41557-021-00678-2

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Bottom‐up Fabrication and Atomic‐scale Characterization of Triply‐linked, Laterally π‐Extended Porphyrin Nanotapes

Q. Sun, L. M. Mateo, R. Robles, N. Lorente, P. Ruffieux, G. Bottari, T. Torres, R. Fasel

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 60 (29), 16208-16214 (2021). DOI: 10.1002/anie.202105350

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Anharmonic effects on the dynamics of solid aluminium from ab initio simulations

D.J. Adams, L. Wang, G. Steinle-Neumann, D. Passerone, S. V. Churakov

J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 33 (17), 175501 (2021). DOI: 10.1088/1361-648X/abc972

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Quantum electronic transport across 'bite' defects in graphene nanoribbons

M. Pizzochero, K. Cernevics, G. Borin Barin, S. Wang, P. Ruffieux, R. Fasel and O.V. Yazyev

2D Mater. 8 (3), 035025 (2021). DOI: 10.1088/2053-1583/abf716

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Exploring Intramolecular Methyl–Methyl Coupling on a Metal Surface for Edge-Extended Graphene Nanoribbons

Z. Qiu, Q. Sun, S. Wang, G. Borin Barin, B. Dumslaff, P. Ruffieux, K. Müllen, A. Narita, R. Fasel

Organic Materials 3 (2), 128-133 (2021). DOI: 10.1055/s-0041-1726295

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The role of methyl groups in the early stage of thermal polymerization of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons revealed by molecular imaging

P. Chen, S. Fatayer, B. Schuler, J.N. Metz, L. Gross, N. Yao, Y. Zhang

Energy and Fuels, 35 (3), 2224-2233 (2021). DOI: 10.1021/acs.energyfuels.0c04016

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On-Surface Synthesis of Dibenzohexacenohexacene and Dibenzopentaphenoheptaphene

X. Xu, A. Kinikar, M. Di Giovannantonio, P. Ruffieux, K. Müllen, R. Fasel, A. Narita

Bull. Chem. Soc. Jpn. 94 (3), 997-999 (2021). DOI: 10.1246/bcsj.20200382

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Simulating the ghost: quantum dynamics of the solvated electron

Lan, J., Kapil, V., Gasparotto, P., Ceriotti, M., Iannuzzi, M., & Rybkin, V. V.

Nat. Commun. 12 (1), 766 (2021). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-20914-0

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Mapping the Structure of Oxygen-Doped Wurtzite Aluminum Nitride Coatings from Ab Initio Random Structure Search and Experiments

P. Gasparotto, M. Fischer, D. Scopece, M. O. Liedke, M. Butterling, A. Wagner, O. Yildirim, M. Trant, D. Passerone, H. J. Hug, and C. A. Pignedoli

ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 13 (4), 5762–5771 (2021). DOI: 10.1021/acsami.0c19270

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Asymmetric azide‐alkyne Huisgen cycloaddition on chiral metal surfaces

S. Stolz, M. Bauer, C. A. Pignedoli, N. Krane, M. Bommert, E. Turco, N. Bassi, A. Kinikar, N. Merino-Dìez, R. Hany, H. Brune, O. Gröning, and R. Widmer

Commun. Chem. 4, 51 (2021). DOI: 10.1038/s42004-021-00488-0

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Fitting a motor in a 1nm3 cube

S. Stolz , J. Prinz, H. Brune, R. Widmer, O. Gröning

SPS Communications 63, Progress in Physics 78

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Synthesis and characterization of [7]triangulene

S. Mishra, K. Xu, K. Eimre, H. Komber, J. Ma, C. A. Pignedoli, R. Fasel, X. Feng and P. Ruffieux

Nanoscale 13 (3), 1624-1628 (2021). DOI: 10.1039/D0NR08181G

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On-surface synthesis of singly and doubly porphyrin-capped graphene nanoribbon segments

L. M. Mateo, Q. Sun, K. Eimre, C. A. Pignedoli, T. Torres, R. Fasel, G. Bottari

Chem. Sci. 12 (1), 247-252 (2021). DOI: 10.1039/D0SC04316H

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AiiDAlab – an ecosystem for developing, executing, and sharing scientific workflows

A. V. Yakutovich, K. Eimre, O. Schütt, L. Talirz, C. S. Adorf, C.W. Andersen, E. Ditler, D. Du, D. Passerone, B. Smit, N. Marzari, G. Pizzi, C. A. Pignedoli

Comput. Mater. Sci 188, 110165 (2021). DOI: 10.1016/j.commatsci.2020.110165

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Graphene nanoribbons with mixed cove-cape-zigzag edge structure

P. P. Shinde, J. Liu, T. Dienel, O. Gröning, T. Dumslaff, M. Mühlinghaus, A. Narita, K. Müllen, C. A. Pignedoli, R. Fasel, P. Ruffieux, D. Passerone

Carbon 175, 50-59 (2021). DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2020.12.069