Nanosurf Lab

Can you see molecular orbitals? Or are they really transitions? ⚛️ 🧪

Now in @jacs.acspublications.org, we urge for caution when interpreting STS experiments - particularly for polyradical open-shell molecules 🧲 👨‍💻 🔬

@fzuavcr.bsky.social @czechacademy.bsky.social

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The experimental team at Nanosurf lab + Stefano Trivini gathered on the tennis court at the Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences.

It was a pleasure to have Stefano Trivini visit us from @nanogune.bsky.social earlier this year - thanks for helping us learn about superconductivity in the lab and showing us some wicked serves on the tennis court ⚛️ 🧪 🎾

Looking forward to collaborating again soon 🤝

3 is the magic number 🧪 ⚛️

Now in @jacs.acspublications.org, we synthesise and examine a spin 3/2 ferromagnetic trimer featuring three delocalised pi-electrons ⬆️ ⬆️ ⬆️ 🧲

@nanogune.bsky.social @ciqus.bsky.social @diegopena.bsky.social @dipcehu.bsky.social

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🔜 16 de julio: seminario INMA con Benjamin Lowe, del Instituto de Física de la Academia Checa de Ciencias (Praga).
Charla, "Tuning electronic correlations at oxide interfaces"
ℹ inma.unizar-csic.es/agenda-event...
@unizar.es @aragoncsic.bsky.social #MCIU #AEI
@sommalliance.bsky.social

Dr. Federico Frezza presenting his PhD defence with powerpoint presentation in the background.

Fede celebrating with a BBQ among colleagues in the garden of our institute.

PhDone! ⚛️ 🧪

Congrats to Dr. Federico Frezza who successfully defended his thesis on light-induced chemical reactions on surfaces 💡🎓 🔬

We're sad that Fede's time with us will soon come to an end, but we wish him the very best for his next position in Florence 🍕 🍝 @maleminore.bsky.social

STM image of 2D MOF with schematic illustrating magnetic coupling between Co atoms and radical ligands.

📣 Complex spin texture in a 2D MOF on-surface ⬆️ ⬇️

Now in @jacs.acspublications.org, we enhance magnetic functionality of MOFs by demonstrating strong π–d coupling between radical ligands and Co atoms 🧲 ⚛️ 🧪

@maleminore.bsky.social @fzuavcr.bsky.social @um.es

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What better way to be welcomed to Prague for our new postdoc Federico Villalobos than a face-to-face with legendary Czech climber Adam Ondra 🧗‍♂️

Fede joins us having completed his PhD in @universidadgranada.bsky.social ⚛️🧪 Welcome Fede 🎉

📢 Recently published in ACS Nano, we characterise a new 2D magnetic material CoCl2 🧲 We discuss the material's in-plane ferromagnetism, and in-gap states at the CoCl2-Au(111) interface 🔬 🧪 ⚛️

@csic.es @www.unizar.es‬ @nanogune.bsky.social @cfmdonostia.bsky.social‬

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Hi, our page is for the nanosurf lab group with PI Pavel Jelinek. Could we be added to the science and chemistry feeds please?
nanosurf.fzu.cz
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Hi, our page is for the nanosurf lab group with PI Pavel Jelinek. Could we be added to the science and physics feeds please?
nanosurf.fzu.cz
scholar.google.com/citations?us...

What's up doc? 🐰 We're happy to share the good news that Qifan Chen successfully defended his thesis becoming our group's latest doctor! 🎓

In Qifan's thesis, he shed light on on-surface reaction mechanisms using hybrid QM/MM methods⚛️🧑‍💻 Congrats Qif and all the best for the future!

We're heading to the DPG spring meeting in Regensburg next week! Come and say hi to Manish, Pavel, Diego, and Marco at their talks 👨‍💻📽️

Full program www.dpg-verhandlungen.de/year/2025/co...

Thank you Rémy!

we report the formation of a stable, surface-supported dinitrene achieved through the photolysis of a diazide precursor on an Au(111) metal substrate. We combine high-resolution scanning probe techniques with theoretical calculations, providing the first real-space imaging of a metal nitrene adsorbed on a surface and exploring the associated photoreaction mechanism.

📢 Bringing to light a new surface reaction💡

We imaged a stable, surface-supported nitrene synthesized through azide photolysis on Au(111) ⚡

with @grilllab.bsky.social

Read more on @angewandtechemie.bsky.social 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Triangulene dimers linked by one or two para-biphenyl units were synthesized on Au(111). STM, non-contact AFM, and scanning tunneling spectroscopy measurements reveal an open-shell singlet magnetic exchange coupling for Dimer 1 (ES-T=15 mV), influenced by the dihedral angles of the two para-biphenyl units. Dimers 2′ with an ES-T=6.6 mV were obtained from a more flexible precursor equipped with one para-biphenyl linker.

What's the only thing better than one triangulene? Two triangulenes!
◀️🟰▶️ Check out our latest work just published in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social with @imdeananociencia.bsky.social 🔬 We look into the influence of dihedral angles on magnetic coupling 🧲

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Chemical reaction scheme - LEEM allows to monitor the surface in real time

In our latest research on @chemistryeurope.bsky.social we monitor an on-surface chemical reaction in real time ⏱️ using Low-Energy Electron Microscopy (LEEM) 🔬
In collaboration with Jan Čechal group at CEITEC - Brno

🔗 Read more: chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Chemical sketch and ncAFM images of the hydroamination & cyclization of alkynes

📣 Check out our latest work on @materchemfront.bsky.social @roysocchem.bsky.social
https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2025/qm/d4qm00866a

We achieve the first intramolecular hydroamination & cyclization of alkynes on Au(111) under UHV 🧪 STM + nc-AFM + DFT 🔬

Scheme of a nickelocene molecule attached to the STM tip

Interested in using nickelocene tip as a spin sensor? 🧲
Check out our how-to guide for theory & experiment 💻🔬 Python code available!

Out now on @ioppublishing.bsky.social
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https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-648X/ad9c08

STM investigation of magnetic porphyrins

🚀 New research! We combine on-surface synthesis & coordination chemistry to investigate π-electron magnetic porphyrins on Au(111) 🔬🧲
Check it out on @angewandtechemie.bsky.social #openacces 👇
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/anie.202420572

A nano-deer made of silver atoms

Merry Christmas! 🎄 From Nanosurf lab and the atomic deer 🦌

Ana, Fede and Ben at the bar

Group selfie in a spooky room

Ana in the lab

This was also Ana's farewell party after 3 years in our group as a postdoc AND emoji specialist for @nanosurflab.bsky.social tweets 👩🏻‍🔬 Good luck for your future adventures, you will be missed!

Tasting fresh beer directly from the tank

Guided visit to a local brewery. Martin was the Czech-English traslator

...and of course proper Czech beer 🍻 visiting a local family brewery

Talk from Guillame Schull (IPCMS, France)

Group dinner in one of the rooms of the Liblice palace

We are back from our group retreat in the beautiful Liblice palace 🏰 thanks to our guests for their contributions! We had 3 days of great science...