Transport at Nanoscale Interfaces Laboratory

Our interdisciplinary team gathers physicists, materials scientists, (bio-) chemists, and engineers focusing on bringing novel materials to devices. We are interested in understanding the fundamental electronic, optoelectronic, thermal and ionic transport processes involved in atomically-precise nanostructures and low-dimensional materials. The heterogeneous integration of novel nanomaterials requires custom-made methods for nanoscale patterning and interfaces nanostructuring. Overall, we strive to master the chain of competences leading from designer materials with tailored quantum properties to devices with targeted application in information & quantum technology, energy conversion & storage as well as biochemical sensing & diagnostics.

 

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Recent publications

Accelerated Alzheimer's Aβ-42 secondary nucleation chronologically visualized on fibril surfaces

2024-accAlz

Nirmalraj, P. N., Bhattacharya, S., & Thompson, D.

Science Advances, 10(43), eadp5059 (12 pp.). (2024).

https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adp5059

A facile methodology for side- and upcycling of HDPE waste via partial creation of unsaturated double bonds

2024-facilemethodology

Wu Klingler W, Perret L, Rupper P, Lehner S, Zhou X, Eliasson H, Muff R, Heuberger M & Gaan S

Green Chemistry.  (2024)

https://doi.org/10.1039/D4GC03108C

Charge transfer in InAs@ZnSe‐MoS2 heterostructures for broadband photodetection

2024-chargetransport

Asaithambi A, Thakur MK, Zhu D, Tofighi NK, Pelli Cresi JS, Kuriyil S, Curreli N, Petrini N, Rebecchi L, De Trizio L, Toma A, Manna L & Kriegel I

Advanced Functional Materials. 2024

https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202409951

AFM-IR of electrohydrodynamically printed PbS quantum dots: quantifying ligand exchange at the nanoscale

2024-afm_ir-of-electrohydro

Ferraresi LJA, Kara G, Burnham NA, Furrer R, Dirin DN, La Mattina F, Kovalenko MV, Calame M & Shorubalko I

Nano Letters, 24(35), 10908-10914. (2024)

https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.4c02631

Photomultiplication enabling efficient shortwave infrared-sensitive organic upconversion devices

2024-photomultiplication

Hu WH, Assunção JPF, Carvalho R dos S, Didier E, Diethelm M, Jenatsch S, Bachmann D, Shorubalko I, Cremona M, Nüesch F, Bauer M & Hany R

Advanced Functional Materials (2024)

https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202407528

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