Associate Professorship of Molecular Engineering at Functional Interfaces

2025

Selective On-Surface Metalation and Uncommon Reordering of Self-Assembled Macrocyclic Biquinazoline Ligands on Ag(111)

Haag, F., Zhao, W., Yang, B., Knecht, P., Seufert, K., Cuxart, M. G., Papageorgiou, A. C., Muntwiler, M., Auwärter, W., Hess, C. R., Barth, J. V. & Allegretti, F., 20 Mar 2025, In: Chemistry - A European Journal. 31, 17, e202404350.

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Selective On-Surface Metalation and Uncommon Reordering of Self-Assembled Macrocyclic Biquinazoline Ligands on Ag(111)

Haag, F., Zhao, W., Yang, B., Knecht, P., Seufert, K., Cuxart, M. G., Papageorgiou, A. C., Muntwiler, M., Auwärter, W., Hess, C. R., Barth, J. V. & Allegretti, F., 2025, (Accepted/In press) In: Chemistry - A European Journal.

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Solution Versus On-Surface Synthesis of Peripherally Oxygen-Annulated Porphyrins through C−O Bond Formation

Deyerling, J., Berionni Berna, B., Biloborodov, D., Haag, F., Tömekce, S., Cuxart, M. G., Li, C., Auwärter, W. & Bonifazi, D., 2 Jan 2025, In: Angewandte Chemie International Edition in English. 64, 1, e202412978.

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2024

Adsorption, Single-Molecule Manipulation, and Self-Assembly of Borazine on Ag(111)

Weiss, T., Baklanov, A., Michelitsch, G. S., Reuter, K., Schwarz, M., Garnica, M. & Auwärter, W., 2 Feb 2024, In: Advanced Materials Interfaces. 11, 4, 2300774.

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3 Scopus citations

Deceptive orbital confinement at edges and pores of carbon-based 1D and 2D nanoarchitectures

Piquero-Zulaica, I., Corral-Rascón, E., Diaz de Cerio, X., Riss, A., Yang, B., Garcia-Lekue, A., Kher-Elden, M. A., Abd El-Fattah, Z. M., Nobusue, S., Kojima, T., Seufert, K., Sakaguchi, H., Auwärter, W. & Barth, J. V., Dec 2024, In: Nature Communications. 15, 1, 1062.

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10 Scopus citations

Holistic structural understanding of epitaxially-grown Bi/Au(111) moiré superstructures

Vezzoni Vicente, P., Weiss, T., Meier, D., Zhao, W., Tömekçe, B. S., G. Cuxart, M., Klein, B. P., Duncan, D. A., Lee, T. L., Papageorgiou, A. C., Muntwiler, M., Seitsonen, A. P., Auwärter, W., Feulner, P., Barth, J. V. & Allegretti, F., Oct 2024, In: Physical Review Materials. 8, 10, 104001.

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1 Scopus citations

Stripe-Like hBN Monolayer Template for Self-Assembly and Alignment of Pentacene Molecules

Chesnyak, V., Cuxart, M. G., Baranowski, D., Seufert, K., Cojocariu, I., Jugovac, M., Feyer, V. & Auwärter, W., 15 Feb 2024, In: Small. 20, 7, 2304803.

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1 Scopus citations

Surface Chemistry of a Halogenated Borazine: From Supramolecular Assemblies to a Random Covalent BN-Substituted Carbon Network

Sena Tömekce, B., Cuxart, M. G., Caputo, L., Poletto, D., Charlier, J. C., Bonifazi, D. & Auwärter, W., 10 Dec 2024, In: Chemistry - A European Journal. 30, 69, e202402492.

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2023

Formation of an Extended Quantum Dot Array Driven and Autoprotected by an Atom-Thick h-BN Layer

Deyerling, J., Piquero-Zulaica, I., Ashoush, M. A., Seufert, K., Kher-Elden, M. A., Abd El-Fattah, Z. M. & Auwärter, W., 28 Mar 2023, In: ACS Nano. 17, 6, p. 5448-5458 11 p.

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4 Scopus citations

On-Surface Synthesis of Polyphenylene Wires Comprising Rigid Aliphatic Bicyclo[1.1.1]Pentane Isolator Units

Yang, B., Niu, K., Cao, N., Grover, N., Zhao, W., Riss, A., Björk, J., Auwärter, W., Barth, J. V. & Senge, M. O., 2 May 2023, In: Angewandte Chemie International Edition in English. 62, 19, e202218211.

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6 Scopus citations

On-Surface Synthesis of Square-Type Porphyrin Tetramers with Central Antiaromatic Cyclooctatetraene Moiety

Rascon, E. C., Riss, A., Matěj, A., Wiengarten, A., Mutombo, P., Soler, D., Jelinek, P. & Auwärter, W., 18 Jan 2023, In: Journal of the American Chemical Society. 145, 2, p. 967-977 11 p.

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18 Scopus citations

Photoresponse of Solution-Synthesized Graphene Nanoribbon Heterojunctions on Diamond Indicating Phototunable Photodiode Polarity

Zhang, X., Hu, Y., Lien-Medrano, C. R., Li, J., Shi, J., Qin, X., Liao, Z., Wang, Y., Wang, Z., Li, J., Chen, J., Zhang, G., Barth, J. V., Frauenheim, T., Auwärter, W., Narita, A., Müllen, K. & Palma, C. A., 26 Apr 2023, In: Journal of the American Chemical Society. 145, 16, p. 8757-8763 7 p.

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8 Scopus citations

Spatial segregation of substitutional B atoms in graphene patterned by the moiré superlattice on Ir(111)

Cuxart, M. G., Perilli, D., Tömekce, S., Deyerling, J., Haag, F., Muntwiler, M., Allegretti, F., Di Valentin, C. & Auwärter, W., 5 Jan 2023, In: Carbon. 201, p. 881-890 10 p.

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11 Scopus citations

Zinc-Porphine on Coinage Metal Surfaces: Adsorption Configuration and Ligand-Induced Central Atom Displacement

Baklanov, A., Küchle, J. T., Duncan, D. A., Ryan, P. T. P., Maurer, R. J., Schwarz, M., Rascon, E. C., Piquero-Zulaica, I., Ngo, H. T., Riss, A., Allegretti, F. & Auwärter, W., 20 Apr 2023, In: Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 127, 15, p. 7501-7512 12 p.

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1 Scopus citations

2022

A trade-off between ligand and strain effects optimizes the oxygen reduction activity of Pt alloys

Kluge, R. M., Haid, R. W., Riss, A., Bao, Y., Seufert, K., Schmidt, T. O., Watzele, S. A., Barth, J. V., Allegretti, F., Auwärter, W., Calle-Vallejo, F. & Bandarenka, A. S., 20 Oct 2022, In: Energy and Environmental Science. 4

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33 Scopus citations

Engineering quantum states and electronic landscapes through surface molecular nanoarchitectures

Piquero-Zulaica, I., Lobo-Checa, J., El-Fattah, Z. M. A., Ortega, J. E., Klappenberger, F., Auwärter, W. & Barth, J. V., Oct 2022, In: Reviews of Modern Physics. 94, 4, 045008.

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30 Scopus citations

N-Heterocyclic Carbenes: Molecular Porters of Surface Mounted Ru-Porphyrins

Knecht, P., Meier, D., Reichert, J., Duncan, D. A., Schwarz, M., Küchle, J. T., Lee, T. L., Deimel, P. S., Feulner, P., Allegretti, F., Auwärter, W., Médard, G., Seitsonen, A. P., Barth, J. V. & Papageorgiou, A. C., 5 Dec 2022, In: Angewandte Chemie International Edition in English. 61, 49, e202211877.

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7 Scopus citations

On-Surface Synthesis of Rigid Benzenoid- and Nonbenzenoid-Coupled Porphyrin-Graphene Nanoribbon Hybrids

Deyerling, J., Pörtner, M., Dordević, L., Riss, A., Bonifazi, D. & Auwärter, W., 19 May 2022, In: Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 126, 19, p. 8467-8476 10 p.

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7 Scopus citations

Silicene’s pervasive surface alloy on Ag(111): a scaffold for two-dimensional growth

Küchle, J. T., Baklanov, A., Seitsonen, A. P., Ryan, P. T. P., Feulner, P., Pendem, P., Lee, T. L., Muntwiler, M., Schwarz, M., Haag, F., Barth, J. V., Auwärter, W., Duncan, D. A. & Allegretti, F., Oct 2022, In: 2D Materials. 9, 4, 045021.

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11 Scopus citations

2021

Actinide Coordination Chemistry on Surfaces: Synthesis, Manipulation, and Properties of Thorium Bis(porphyrinato) Complexes

Rheinfrank, E., Pörtner, M., Nuñez Beyerle, M. D. C., Haag, F., Deimel, P. S., Allegretti, F., Seufert, K., Barth, J. V., Bocquet, M. L., Feulner, P. & Auwärter, W., 15 Sep 2021, In: Journal of the American Chemical Society. 143, 36, p. 14581-14591 11 p.

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12 Scopus citations

Assembly and Manipulation of a Prototypical N-Heterocyclic Carbene with a Metalloporphyrin Pedestal on a Solid Surface

Knecht, P., Zhang, B., Reichert, J., Duncan, D. A., Schwarz, M., Haag, F., Ryan, P. T. P., Lee, T. L., Deimel, P. S., Feulner, P., Allegretti, F., Auwärter, W., Médard, G., Seitsonen, A. P., Barth, J. V. & Papageorgiou, A. C., 24 Mar 2021, In: Journal of the American Chemical Society. 143, 11, p. 4433-4439 7 p.

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22 Scopus citations

Borophenes made easy

Cuxart, M. G., Seufert, K., Chesnyak, V., Waqas, W. A., Robert, A., Bocquet, M. L., Duesberg, G. S., Sachdev, H. & Auwärter, W., Nov 2021, In: Science Advances. 7, 45, eabk1490.

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54 Scopus citations

Conformational Control of Chemical Reactivity for Surface-Confined Ru-Porphyrins

Knecht, P., Reichert, J., Deimel, P. S., Feulner, P., Haag, F., Allegretti, F., Garnica, M., Schwarz, M., Auwärter, W., Ryan, P. T. P., Lee, T. L., Duncan, D. A., Seitsonen, A. P., Barth, J. V. & Papageorgiou, A. C., 19 Jul 2021, In: Angewandte Chemie International Edition in English. 60, 30, p. 16561-16567 7 p.

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14 Scopus citations

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

Cirera, B., Riss, A., Mutombo, P., Urgel, J. I., Santos, J., Di Giovannantonio, M., Widmer, R., Stolz, S., Sun, Q., Bommert, M., Fasel, R., Jelínek, P., Auwärter, W., Martín, N. & Écija, D., 14 Oct 2021, In: Chemical Science. 12, 38, p. 12806-12811 6 p.

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3 Scopus citations

Surface-confined formation of conjugated porphyrin-based nanostructures on Ag(111)

Cao, N., Riss, A., Corral-Rascon, E., Meindl, A., Auwärter, W., Senge, M. O., Ebrahimi, M. & Barth, J. V., 21 Dec 2021, In: Nanoscale. 13, 47, p. 19884-19889 6 p.

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4 Scopus citations

Surface-Mediated Ring-Opening and Porphyrin Deconstruction via Conformational Distortion

Bischoff, F., Riss, A., Michelitsch, G. S., Ducke, J., Barth, J. V., Reuter, K. & Auwärter, W., 22 Sep 2021, In: Journal of the American Chemical Society. 143, 37, p. 15131-15138 8 p.

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20 Scopus citations

The Flexible On-Surface Self-Assembly of a Low-Symmetry Mabiq Ligand: An Unconventional Metal-Assisted Phase Transformation on Ag(111)

Haag, F., Deimel, P. S., Knecht, P., Niederegger, L., Seufert, K., G. Cuxart, M., Bao, Y., Papageorgiou, A. C., Muntwiler, M., Auwärter, W., Hess, C. R., Barth, J. V. & Allegretti, F., 28 Oct 2021, In: Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 125, 42, p. 23178-23191 14 p.

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3 Scopus citations

Tunable interface of ruthenium porphyrins and silver

Papageorgiou, A. C., Knecht, P., Ryan, P. T. P., Duncan, D. A., Jiang, L., Reichert, J., Deimel, P. S., Haag, F., Küchle, J. T., Allegretti, F., Lee, T. L., Schwarz, M., Garnica, M., Auwärter, W., Seitsonen, A. P. & Barth, J. V., 11 Feb 2021, In: Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 125, 5, p. 3215-3224 10 p.

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14 Scopus citations

2020

Charge State Control of F₁₆CoPc on h-BN/Cu(111)

Pörtner, M., Wei, Y., Riss, A., Seufert, K., Garnica, M., Barth, J. V., Seitsonen, A. P., Diekhöner, L. & Auwärter, W., 1 Aug 2020, In: Advanced Materials Interfaces. 7, 15, 2000080.

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14 Scopus citations

On-Surface Synthesis of Nonmetal Porphyrins

Baklanov, A., Garnica, M., Robert, A., Bocquet, M. L., Seufert, K., Küchle, J. T., Ryan, P. T. P., Haag, F., Kakavandi, R., Allegretti, F. & Auwärter, W., 29 Jan 2020, In: Journal of the American Chemical Society. 142, 4, p. 1871-1881 11 p.

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25 Scopus citations

Polycyclic aromatic chains on metals and insulating layers by repetitive [3+2] cycloadditions

Riss, A., Richter, M., Paz, A. P., Wang, X. Y., Raju, R., He, Y., Ducke, J., Corral, E., Wuttke, M., Seufert, K., Garnica, M., Rubio, A., V. Barth, J., Narita, A., Müllen, K., Berger, R., Feng, X., Palma, C. A. & Auwärter, W., 1 Dec 2020, In: Nature Communications. 11, 1, 1490.

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24 Scopus citations

Self-assembly and spectroscopic fingerprints of photoactive pyrenyl tectons on hBN/Cu(111)

Zimmermann, D. M., Seufert, K., Ðorđević, L., Hoh, T., Joshi, S., Marangoni, T., Bonifazi, D. & Auwärter, W., 2020, In: Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology. 11, p. 1470-1483 14 p.

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5 Scopus citations

2019

Bottom-Up fabrication of a metal-supported oxo-metal porphyrin

Duncan, D. A., Deimel, P. S., Wiengarten, A., Paszkiewicz, M., Casado Aguilar, P., Acres, R. G., Klappenberger, F., Auwärter, W., Seitsonen, A. P., Barth, J. V. & Allegretti, F., 26 Dec 2019, In: Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 123, 51, p. 31011-31025 15 p.

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14 Scopus citations

In-Situ Growth of Gadolinium Phthalocyaninato Sandwich Complexes on the Ag(111) Surface

Urgel, J. I., Écija, D., Vijayaraghavan, S., Pörtner, M., Bocquet, M. L., Auwärter, W. & Barth, J. V., 17 Sep 2019, In: ChemPhysChem. 20, 18, p. 2301-2304 4 p.

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5 Scopus citations

Snapshots of Dynamic Adaptation: Two-Dimensional Molecular Architectonics with Linear Bis-Hydroxamic Acid Modules

Jing, C., Zhang, B., Synkule, S., Ebrahimi, M., Riss, A., Auwärter, W., Jiang, L., Médard, G., Reichert, J., Barth, J. V. & Papageorgiou, A. C., 19 Dec 2019, In: Angewandte Chemie International Edition in English. 58, 52, p. 18948-18956 9 p.

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6 Scopus citations

2018

Adsorption Conformation and Lateral Registry of Cobalt Porphine on Cu(111)

Schwarz, M., Garnica, M., Duncan, D. A., Pérez Paz, A., Ducke, J., Deimel, P. S., Thakur, P. K., Lee, T. L., Rubio, A., Barth, J. V., Allegretti, F. & Auwärter, W., 15 Mar 2018, In: Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 122, 10, p. 5452-5461 10 p.

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16 Scopus citations

BN-Patterning of Metallic Substrates through Metal Coordination of Decoupled Borazines

Schwarz, M., Garnica, M., Fasano, F., Demitri, N., Bonifazi, D. & Auwärter, W., 5 Jul 2018, In: Chemistry - A European Journal. 24, 38, p. 9565-9571 7 p.

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11 Scopus citations

Exploration of Interfacial Porphine Coupling Schemes and Hybrid Systems by Bond-Resolved Scanning Probe Microscopy

Bischoff, F., He, Y., Riss, A., Seufert, K., Auwärter, W. & Barth, J. V., 3 Dec 2018, In: Angewandte Chemie International Edition in English. 57, 49, p. 16030-16035 6 p.

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26 Scopus citations

Lanthanide-Directed Assembly of Interfacial Coordination Architectures-From Complex Networks to Functional Nanosystems

Écija, D., Urgel, J. I., Seitsonen, A. P., Auwärter, W. & Barth, J. V., 20 Feb 2018, In: Accounts of Chemical Research. 51, 2, p. 365-375 11 p.

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66 Scopus citations

Layered Insulator/Molecule/Metal Heterostructures with Molecular Functionality through Porphyrin Intercalation

Ducke, J., Riss, A., Pérez Paz, A., Seufert, K., Schwarz, M., Garnica, M., Rubio, A. & Auwärter, W., 27 Mar 2018, In: ACS Nano. 12, 3, p. 2677-2684 8 p.

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16 Scopus citations

Metalation of Porphyrins by Lanthanide Atoms at Interfaces: Direct Observation and Stimulation of Cerium Coordination to 2H-TPP/Ag(111)

Bischoff, F., Seufert, K., Auwärter, W., Seitsonen, A. P., Heim, D. & Barth, J. V., 8 Mar 2018, In: Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 122, 9, p. 5083-5092 10 p.

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18 Scopus citations

Quantitative determination of a model organic/insulator/metal interface structure

Schwarz, M., Duncan, D. A., Garnica, M., Ducke, J., Deimel, P. S., Thakur, P. K., Lee, T. L., Allegretti, F. & Auwärter, W., 14 Dec 2018, In: Nanoscale. 10, 46, p. 21971-21977 7 p.

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15 Scopus citations

2017

Corrugation in the Weakly Interacting Hexagonal-BN/Cu(111) System: Structure Determination by Combining Noncontact Atomic Force Microscopy and X-ray Standing Waves

Schwarz, M., Riss, A., Garnica, M., Ducke, J., Deimel, P. S., Duncan, D. A., Thakur, P. K., Lee, T. L., Seitsonen, A. P., Barth, J. V., Allegretti, F. & Auwärter, W., 26 Sep 2017, In: ACS Nano. 11, 9, p. 9151-9161 11 p.

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59 Scopus citations

Exploration of pyrazine-embedded antiaromatic polycyclic hydrocarbons generated by solution and on-surface azomethine ylide homocoupling

Wang, X. Y., Richter, M., He, Y., Björk, J., Riss, A., Rajesh, R., Garnica, M., Hennersdorf, F., Weigand, J. J., Narita, A., Berger, R., Feng, X., Auwärter, W., Barth, J. V., Palma, C. A. & Müllen, K., 1 Dec 2017, In: Nature Communications. 8, 1, 1948.

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83 Scopus citations

Fusing tetrapyrroles to graphene edges by surface-assisted covalent coupling

He, Y., Garnica, M., Bischoff, F., Ducke, J., Bocquet, M. L., Batzill, M., Auwärter, W. & Barth, J. V., 1 Jan 2017, In: Nature Chemistry. 9, 1, p. 33-38 6 p.

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109 Scopus citations

Nanoscale Phase Engineering of Niobium Diselenide

Bischoff, F., Auwärter, W., Barth, J. V., Schiffrin, A., Fuhrer, M. & Weber, B., 12 Dec 2017, In: Chemistry of Materials. 29, 23, p. 9907-9914 8 p.

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46 Scopus citations

Preservation of electronic properties of double-decker complexes on metallic supports

Cirera, B., Matarrubia, J., Kaposi, T., Giménez-Agulló, N., Paszkiewicz, M., Klappenberger, F., Otero, R., Gallego, J. M., Ballester, P., Barth, J. V., Miranda, R., Galán-Mascarós, J. R., Auwärter, W. & Ecija, D., 2017, In: Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 19, 12, p. 8282-8287 6 p.

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7 Scopus citations

2016

Comparative study of the interfaces of graphene and hexagonal boron nitride with silver

Garnica, M., Schwarz, M., Ducke, J., He, Y., Bischoff, F., Barth, J. V., Auwärter, W. & Stradi, D., 18 Oct 2016, In: Physical Review B. 94, 15, 155431.

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23 Scopus citations

Direct Identification and Determination of Conformational Response in Adsorbed Individual Nonplanar Molecular Species Using Noncontact Atomic Force Microscopy

Albrecht, F., Bischoff, F., Auwärter, W., Barth, J. V. & Repp, J., 14 Dec 2016, In: Nano Letters. 16, 12, p. 7703-7709 7 p.

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50 Scopus citations

Dynamics and thermal stability of surface-confined metal-organic chains

Ecija, D., Marschall, M., Reichert, J., Kasperski, A., Nieckarz, D., Szabelski, P., Auwärter, W. & Barth, J. V., 1 Jan 2016, In: Surface Science. 643, p. 91-97 7 p.

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19 Scopus citations

Associate Professorship of Molecular Engineering at Functional Interfaces

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