Wenze Gao received his Ph.D. in Materialogy from Tongji University (China) in 2024. During his doctoral research, he mainly focused on the on-surface synthesis and characterization of sp-hybridized carbon allotropes and carbon-rich materials like carbyne and cyclo[n]carbons with scanning tunnelling microscopy (STM) and atomic force microscopy (AFM) under the supervision of Prof. Wei Xu. In September 2024, he joined the nanotech@surfaces Laboratory at Empa as a Postdoctoral Researcher. His focus is on studying the electronic and magnetic properties of carbon-based 2D spin lattices.

2D Spin Lattices; Carbon Allotropes; Surface Physics and Chemistry; Scanning Probe Microscopy

W. Gao, W. Zheng, L. Sun, F. Kang, Z. Zhou, W. Xu, An sp-sp2-hybridized molecular carbon allotrope: C16 flake, Preprint (2024). DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-4301438/v1
 

W. Gao, W. Zheng, L. Sun, F. Kang, Z. Zhou, W. Xu, On-surface synthesis and characterization of polyynic carbon chains, Natl. Sci. Rev. 11, nwae031 (2024). DOI: 10.1093/nsr/nwae031

L. Sun, W. Zheng, W. Gao, F. Kang, M. Zhao, W. Xu, On-surface synthesis of aromatic cyclo[10]carbon and cyclo[14]carbon, Nature 623, 972-976 (2023). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-023-06741-x

W. Gao, L. Cai, F. Kang, L. Shang, M. Zhao, C. Zhang, W. Xu, Bottom-up synthesis of metalated carbyne ribbons via elimination reactions, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 145, 6203-6209 (2023). DOI: 10.1021/jacs.2c12292

W. Gao, F. Kang, X. Qiu, Z. Yi, L. Shang, M. Liu, X. Qiu, Y. Luo, W. Xu, On-surface debromination of C6Br6: C6 ring versus C6 chain, ACS Nano 16, 6578-6584 (2022). DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.2c00945