Michael Gottfried

surfaces & interfaces, scanning probe methods, synthetic carbon allotropes & nanographenes

[Michael Gottfried @GottfriedGroup]

@jionglu_NUS Great work and very helpful for anyone interested in this field!

[Jiong Lu @jionglu_NUS]

A review paper titled “Designer π-Magnetism in Magnetic Graphene Nanostructures: Advances and Future Perspectives” is now online in NSR. Congratulations to Xinnan and all the authors! https://t.co/imEt2NREez

[Michael Gottfried @GottfriedGroup]

@wuerthnergroup Congratulations, Frank - well deserved!

[European Research Council (ERC) @ERC_Research]

The number of grant applications is rising sharply. Our capacity for their evaluation isn’t.

ERC President Maria Leptin explains why stricter resubmission limits are being introduced for 2027 calls and what this mean for applicants.
https://t.co/YavrW4P8FJ

[Jiong Lu @jionglu_NUS]

Quantum defects in hBN Nanobubbles @acsnano 👇👇 https://t.co/jcaf4DmVyd

[Oliver Dumele @DumeleLab]

Cycloazulenylene.

@dumelelab @ChemUniCologne with @Slanina_Group @IOCBPrague

➡️https://t.co/Kvb8zOcBUr

[Michael Gottfried @GottfriedGroup]

@jetsinglee Thanks a lot, Jet - much appreciated!

[Michael Gottfried @GottfriedGroup]

@LLLLLJ57452613 Thank you!

[Michael Gottfried @GottfriedGroup]

@Nikitaaaa02 Thank you very much, Nikita! 🙏

[Michael Gottfried @GottfriedGroup]

New paper in Nature Chemistry: We find that on-surface radical ring-opening polymerization of [6]CPP on Cu(111), produces near micrometer-long poly(para-phenylene) (PPP) chains — far beyond typical polymer lengths obtained by On-Surface Synthesis.
🔗 https://t.co/sBINdQGeRT 1/4

[Michael Gottfried @GottfriedGroup]

@Brunodltorre Thanks a lot, Bruno!

[Michael Gottfried @GottfriedGroup]

@Leo_Gross_IBM Thanks much, Leo!

[Michael Gottfried @GottfriedGroup]

@KwanHoAuYeung1 Thank you!

[Leo Gross @Leo_Gross_IBM]

We went on exploring the half-Möbius topology https://t.co/bn6JxqTxyf by quantum computing - employing up to 100 qubits https://t.co/WximanrMIx

[Diego Peña Gil @depena33]

My new favourite molecule published as VIP paper / front cover in @angew_chem Great collaboration with the groups of Jascha Repp and @Leo_Gross_IBM in the framework of @ERC_Research SyG MolDAM @axenciaGAIN https://t.co/PZT8dHmYPk

[Leo Gross @Leo_Gross_IBM]

You see a half-Möbius body. Start somewehre on it and go around. You will need to go 4 times around to return to your starting position. We made a molecule with an orbital basis of such topology and switched the winding by atom manipulation. https://t.co/cmwmfFKxVu

[Leo Gross @Leo_Gross_IBM]

Happy to share a new molecular topology. We call it half-Moebius. Even switchable between on, off and reversed winding. Exhibiting twisted orbitals, confirmed by quantum computing. https://t.co/cmwmfFKxVu

[Michael Gottfried @GottfriedGroup]

They dehydrogenate along one edge → poly(para-benzyne) intermediates → fusion into biphenylene nanoribbons.
➡️ Route to nonbenzenoid carbon nanostructures.
Great collaboration with @RalfTonner & the Schirmeisen group, first authors: @QitangF, Qigang Zhong

[Michael Gottfried @GottfriedGroup]

Result: ultralong PPP chains up to ~0.9 µm observed by STM/AFM. Because the reaction proceeds without halogen byproducts, the surrounding surface remains clean and so the PPP chains can engage in well-defined follow-up reactions: 3/4