Search Results - "Widmer, Roland"
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Observation and control of maximal Chern numbers in a chiral topological semimetal
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (10-07-2020)“…A very high Chern number Topologically nontrivial electronic structure can often be characterized by the Chern number, the value of which is related to the…”
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Rationalizing and Controlling the Surface Structure and Electronic Passivation of Cesium Lead Halide Nanocrystals
Published in ACS energy letters (11-01-2019)“…Colloidal lead halide perovskite nanocrystals (NCs) have recently emerged as versatile photonic sources. Their processing and luminescent properties are…”
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On-surface light-induced generation of higher acenes and elucidation of their open-shell character
Published in Nature communications (20-02-2019)“…Acenes are an important class of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons which have recently gained exceptional attention due to their potential as functional organic…”
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On-Surface Growth Dynamics of Graphene Nanoribbons: The Role of Halogen Functionalization
Published in ACS nano (23-01-2018)“…On-surface synthesis is a powerful route toward the fabrication of specific graphene-like nanostructures confined in two dimensions. This strategy has been…”
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On-surface synthesis and characterization of individual polyacetylene chains
Published in Nature chemistry (01-10-2019)“…Polyacetylene (PA) comprises one-dimensional chains of sp 2 -hybridized carbon atoms that may take a cis or trans configuration. Owing to its simple chemical…”
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Highly Enantioselective Adsorption of Small Prochiral Molecules on a Chiral Intermetallic Compound
Published in Angewandte Chemie International Edition (23-03-2015)“…Intrinsically chiral surfaces of intermetallic compounds are shown to be novel materials for enantioselective processes. Their advantage is the significantly…”
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Surface science at the PEARL beamline of the Swiss Light Source
Published in Journal of synchrotron radiation (01-01-2017)“…The Photo‐Emission and Atomic Resolution Laboratory (PEARL) is a new soft X‐ray beamline and surface science laboratory at the Swiss Light Source. PEARL is…”
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Adsorption of Small Hydrocarbons on the Three-Fold PdGa Surfaces: The Road to Selective Hydrogenation
Published in Journal of the American Chemical Society (20-08-2014)“…Intermetallic compounds are a promising class of materials as stable and selective heterogeneous catalysts. Here, the (111) and (−1–1–1) single crystal…”
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Handedness-dependent quasiparticle interference in the two enantiomers of the topological chiral semimetal PdGa
Published in Nature communications (14-07-2020)“…It has recently been proposed that combining chirality with topological band theory results in a totally new class of fermions. Understanding how these…”
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Growth Optimization and Device Integration of Narrow‐Bandgap Graphene Nanoribbons
Published in Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) (01-08-2022)“…The electronic, optical, and magnetic properties of graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) can be engineered by controlling their edge structure and width with atomic…”
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On-surface Synthesis: What Happens Behind the Scenes?
Published in Chimia (30-03-2022)“…On-surface synthesis has become a powerful approach to produce low-dimensional carbon-based nanostructures with atomistic precision. A large variety of…”
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Heteroatom-Doped Perihexacene from a Double Helicene Precursor: On-Surface Synthesis and Properties
Published in Journal of the American Chemical Society (05-04-2017)“…We report on the surface-assisted synthesis and spectroscopic characterization of the hitherto longest periacene analogue with oxygen–boron–oxygen (OBO)…”
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On‐Surface Synthesis of Cumulene‐Containing Polymers via Two‐Step Dehalogenative Homocoupling of Dibromomethylene‐Functionalized Tribenzoazulene
Published in Angewandte Chemie International Edition (03-08-2020)“…Cumulene compounds are notoriously difficult to prepare and study because their reactivity increases dramatically with the increasing number of consecutive…”
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Zeolite-Templated Carbon as a Stable, High Power Magnesium-Ion Cathode Material
Published in ACS applied materials & interfaces (30-10-2019)“…One strategy to overcome the slow kinetics associated with electrochemical magnesium ion storage is to employ a permanently porous, capacitive cathode material…”
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How to Control the Selectivity of Palladium-based Catalysts in Hydrogenation Reactions: The Role of Subsurface Chemistry
Published in ChemCatChem (01-08-2012)“…Discussed are the recent experimental and theoretical results on palladium‐based catalysts for selective hydrogenation of alkynes obtained by a number of…”
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Electronic Decoupling and Single‐Molecule Charging of C60 on h‐BN/Rh(111)
Published in Advanced Physics Research (01-08-2023)“…A detailed understanding of the interaction between molecules and 2D materials is crucial to implement molecular films into next‐generation 2D material‐organic…”
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Boron Nitride Nanomesh: Functionality from a Corrugated Monolayer
Published in Angewandte Chemie International Edition (01-01-2007)“…A nanotemplate surface that functions as a regular array of traps for molecules such as naphthalocyanine (see picture) is provided by a nanomesh of hexagonal…”
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Asymmetric Molecular Adsorption and Regioselective Bond Cleavage on Chiral PdGa Crystals
Published in Advanced science (01-04-2024)“…Homogenous enantioselective catalysis is nowadays the cornerstone in the manufacturing of enantiopure substances, but its technological implementation suffers…”
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Sterically Selective [3 + 3] Cycloaromatization in the On-Surface Synthesis of Nanographenes
Published in ACS Nanoscience Au (17-04-2024)“…Surface-catalyzed reactions have been used to synthesize carbon nanomaterials with atomically predefined structures. The recent discovery of a gold…”
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Overcoming the High-Voltage Limitations of Li-Ion Batteries Using a Titanium Nitride Current Collector
Published in ACS applied energy materials (25-02-2019)“…The major obstacle to commercialization of high-voltage Li-ion batteries is the lack of oxidatively stable and inexpensive current collectors that can operate…”
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