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Investigating the Ubiquitous Presence of Nanometric Water Films on Surfaces

Written by Jags on 12 October 2021.

Título : Investigating the Ubiquitous Presence of Nanometric Water Films on Surfaces

Autores: Sergio Santos*, Carlo Alberto Amadei, Chia-Yun Lai, Tuza Olukan, Jin-You Lu, Josep Font, Victor Barcons, Albert Verdaguer*, and Matteo Chiesa*

Citation and DOI:

J. Phys. Chem. C 2021, 125, 29, 15759–15772

Publication Date:June 25, 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.1c03767

PlumX: Investigating the Ubiquitous Presence of Nanometric Water Films on Surfaces

When we speak of nanometric water films on surfaces we are speaking about a truly ubiquitous phenomenon in nature. All surfaces exposed to ambient conditions are covered by a thin film of water that affects or mediates surface chemistry, general physical-chemical processes on surfaces, and even solid–solid interactions.

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Unusual stoichiometry, band structure and band filling in conducting enantiopure radical cation salts of TM-BEDT-TTF showing helical packing of the donors

Written by Jags on 05 October 2021.

Título : Unusual stoichiometry, band structure and band filling in conducting enantiopure radical cation salts of TM-BEDT-TTF showing helical packing of the donors

Autores: Flavia Pop, Cécile Mézière, Magali Allain, Pascale Auban-Senzier, Naoya Tajima, Daichi Hirobe, Hiroshi M. Yamamoto, Enric Canadell * and Narcis Avarvari *

Citation and DOI: J. Mater. Chem. C, 2021,9, 10777-10786
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/D1TC01112J

PlumX: Unusual stoichiometry, band structure and band filling in conducting enantiopure radical cation salts of TM-BEDT-TTF showing helical packing of the donors

Electrocrystallization of tetramethyl-bis(ethylenedithio)-tetrathiafulvalene (TM-BEDT-TTF) (1) as pure (S,S,S,S) and (R,R,R,R) enantiomers in the presence of (n-Bu₄N)₂(Mo₆O₁₉) and chloroform or bromoform afforded a series of four isostructural enantiopure radical cation salts [(S/R)-1]₉(Mo₆O₁₉)₅·(CHX₃)₂ (X = Cl, Br) crystallizing in the trigonal non-centrosymmetric space group R32.

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From high quality packing to disordered nucleation or phase separation in donor/acceptor interfaces: ClAlPc-C60 on Au(111)

Written by Jags on 03 September 2021.

Título : From high quality packing to disordered nucleation or phase separation in donor/acceptor interfaces: ClAlPc-C₆₀ on Au(111)

Autores: Esther Barrena, Rogger Palacios-Rivera, José I. Martínez and Carmen Ocal *

Citation and DOI: Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2021,23, 14363-14371
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/D1CP01312B

PlumX: From high quality packing to disordered nucleation or phase separation in donor/acceptor interfaces: ClAlPc-C60 on Au(111)

The dramatic consequences that the orientation adopted by the molecular dipoles, in diverse arrays of chloroaluminum phthalocyanine (ClAlPc) on Au(111), have on the ulterior adsorption and growth of C₆₀ are explored by means of an all scanning probe microscopy approach. The unidirectional downwards organization of the molecular dipoles at the first layer reduces charge transfer from the metal to C₆₀. Imbalance between attractive and repulsive interactions of the fullerenes are crucial for their ordered supramolecular aggregation.

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Synthesis of 2D Porous Crystalline Materials in Simulated Microgravity

Written by Anna on 27 August 2021.

Título : Synthesis of 2D Porous Crystalline Materials in Simulated Microgravity

Autores: Noemí Contreras-Pereda, David Rodríguez-San-Miguel, Carlos Franco, Semih Sevim, João Pedro Vale, Eduardo Solano, Wye-Khay Fong, Alessandra Del Giudice, Luciano Galantini, Raphael Pfattner, Salvador Pané, Tiago Sotto Mayor, Daniel Ruiz-Molina, Josep Puigmartí-Luis

Citation and DOI:

Advanced Materials, Volume33, Issue30, July 28, 2021, 2101777
DOI: 10.1002/adma.202101777

PlumX: Synthesis of 2D Porous Crystalline Materials in Simulated Microgravity

To date, crystallization studies conducted in space laboratories, which are prohibitively costly and unsuitable to most research laboratories, have shown the valuable effects of microgravity during crystal growth and morphogenesis. Herein, an easy and highly efficient method is shown to achieve space-like experimentation conditions on Earth employing custom-made microfluidic devices to fabricate 2D porous crystalline molecular frameworks.

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Rich Polymorphism of Layered NbS3

Written by Anna on 20 August 2021.

Título : Rich Polymorphism of Layered NbS₃

Autores: Sergio Conejeros, Bogdan Guster, Pere Alemany, Jean-Paul Pouget, and Enric Canadell

Citation and DOI:

Chem. Mater. 2021, 33, 14, 5449–5463

Publication Date:July 6, 2021

DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.1c01417

PlumX: Rich Polymorphism of Layered NbS₃

Layered group V transition-metal trichalcogenides are paradigmatic low-dimensional materials providing an ever increasing series of unusual properties. They are all based on the same basic building units, one-dimensional MX₃ (M = Nb, Ta; X = S, Se) trigonal-prismatic chains that condense into layers, but their electronic structures exhibit significant differences leading to a broad spectrum of transport properties, ranging from metals with one, two, or three charge density wave instabilities to semimetals with potential topological properties or semiconductors.

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Red light-emitting Carborane-BODIPY dyes: Synthesis and properties of visible-light tuned fluorophores with enhanced boron content

Written by Anna on 17 August 2021.

Título : Red light-emitting Carborane-BODIPY dyes: Synthesis and properties of visible-light tuned fluorophores with enhanced boron content

Autores:

Chiara Bellomo, Davide Zanetti, Francesca Cardano, Sohini Sinha, Mahdi Chaari, Andrea Fin, Andrea Maranzana, Rosario Núñez, Marco Blangetti, Cristina Prandi

Citation and DOI:

Dyes and Pigments
Volume 194, October 2021, 109644
DOI: 10.1016/j.dyepig.2021.109644

PlumX: Red light-emitting Carborane-BODIPY dyes: Synthesis and properties of visible-light tuned fluorophores with enhanced boron content

A small library of 2,6- and 3,5-distyrenyl-substituted carborane-BODIPY dyes was efficiently synthesized by means of a Pd-catalyzed Heck coupling reaction. Styrenyl-carborane derivatives were exploited as molecular tools to insert two carborane clusters into the fluorophore core and to extend the π-conjugation of the final molecule in a single synthetic step.

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A Trapezoidal Octacyanoquinoid Acceptor Forms Solution and Surface Products by Antiparallel Shape Fitting with Conformational Dipole Momentum Switch

Written by Anna on 06 August 2021.

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A Trapezoidal Octacyanoquinoid Acceptor Forms Solution and Surface Products by Antiparallel Shape Fitting with Conformational Dipole Momentum Switch

Autores:

Samara Medina Rivero, Javier Urieta-Mora, Agustín Molina-Ontoria, Cristina Martín-Fuentes, José I. Urgel, Maria Zubiria-Ulacia, Vega Lloveras, David Casanova, José I. Martínez, Jaume Veciana, David Écija, Nazario Martín, and Juan Casado

Citation and DOI:

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2021, 60, 1 – 7
DOI: 10.1002/anie.202104294

PlumX: A Trapezoidal Octacyanoquinoid Acceptor Forms Solution and Surface Products by Antiparallel Shape Fitting with Conformational Dipole Momentum Switch

A new compound formed by two antiparallelly disposed tetracyano thienoquinoidal units has been synthesized and studied by electrochemistry and several spectroscopic techniques. Its self-assembly on a Au(111) surface has been investigated by scanning tunneling microscopy.

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Allocation of Ambipolar Charges on an Organic Diradical with a Vinylene–Phenylenediyne Bridge

Written by Anna on 30 July 2021.

Título : Allocation of Ambipolar Charges on an Organic Diradical with a Vinylene–Phenylenediyne Bridge

Autores: Paula Mayorga-Burrezo, Francesc Bejarano, Joaquín Calbo, Xiaotao Zhao, J. Alejandro De Sousa, Vega Lloveras, Martin R. Bryce, Enrique Ortí, Jaume Veciana, Concepció Rovira, and Núria Crivillers

Citation and DOI:

J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2021, 12, 26, 6159–6164

DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.1c01565

PlumX: Allocation of Ambipolar Charges on an Organic Diradical with a Vinylene-Phenylenediyne Bridge

Two redox and magnetically active perchlorotriphenylmethyl (^•PTM) radical units have been connected as end-capping groups to a bis(phenylene)diyne chain through vinylene linkers. Negative and positive charged species have been generated, and the influence of the bridge on their stabilization is discussed.

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Oxidation processes at the surface of BaTiO3 thin films under environmental conditions

Written by Jags on 02 July 2021.

Título : Oxidation processes at the surface of BaTiO₃ thin films under environmental conditions

Autores: I. Spasojević, G. Sautier, J. Caicedo, A. Verdaguer, N. Domingo

Citation and DOI: Applied Surface Science, 2021, 150288, ISSN 0169-4332,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apsusc.2021.150288

PlumX: Oxidation processes at the surface of BaTiO3 thin films under environmental conditions

Dissociation and adsorption of water on ferroelectric oxide surfaces play important role in the processes of screening and switching dynamics of ferroelectric polarization, as well as in catalytic processes which can be additionally coupled with light, temperature or vibration stimuli. In this work, we present XPS study of ferroelectric BaTiO₃thin films and determine the entanglement between surface chemistry, polarization direction and stability, by observing changes upon time exposure to environmental conditions, heating in O₂atmosphere and irradiation in vacuum.

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Advances in dynamic AFM: From nanoscale energy dissipation to material properties in the nanoscale

Written by Jags on 04 June 2021.

Autores: Sergio Santos, Karim Gadelrab, Chia-Yun Lai, Tuza Olukan, Josep Font, Victor Barcons, Albert Verdaguer, and Matteo Chiesa

Citation and DOI:

Journal of Applied Physics 129, 134302 (2021)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0041366

PlumX: Advances in dynamic AFM: From nanoscale energy dissipation to material properties in the nanoscale

Since the inception of the atomic force microscope (AFM), dynamic methods (dynamic atomic force microscopy) have been very fruitful by establishing methods to quantify dissipative and conservative forces in the nanoscale and by providing a means to apply gentle forces to the samples with high resolution. Here, we discuss developments that cover over a decade of our work on energy dissipation, phase contrast, and the extraction of relevant material properties from observables.

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Conducting chiral nickel(ii) bis(dithiolene) complexes: structural and electron transport modulation with the charge and the number of stereogenic centres

Written by Jags on 18 May 2021.

Autores: Alexandre Abhervé, Nabil Mroweh, Thomas Cauchy, Flavia Pop, HengBo Cui, Reizo Kato, Nicolas Vanthuyne, Pere Alemany, Enric Canadell * and Narcis Avarvari *

Citation and DOI:

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2021,9, 4119-4140
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/D1TC00439E

PlumX: Conducting chiral nickel(ii) bis(dithiolene) complexes: structural and electron transport modulation with the charge and the number of stereogenic centres

Nickel(II) bis(dithiolene) complexes can provide crystalline conducting materials either in their monoanionic or neutral forms. Here we show that the use of chiral dithiolene ligands with one or two stereogenic centres, together with variation of the counter-ion in the anionic complexes, represents a powerful strategy to modulate the conducting properties of such molecular materials.The chiral ligands 5-methyl-5,6-dihydro-1,4-dithiin-2,3-dithiolate (me-dddt) and 5,6-dimethyl-5,6-dihydro-1,4-dithiin-2,3-dithiolate (dm-dddt) have been generated from the thione precursors 1 and 2 which have been structurally and chiroptically characterized.

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Interaction of Luminescent Defects in Carbon Nanotubes with Covalently Attached Stable Organic Radicals

Written by Jags on 07 May 2021.

Autores: Felix J. Berger, J. Alejandro de SousaJ. Alejandro de Sousa, Shen Zhao, Nicolas F. Zorn, Abdurrahman Ali El Yumin, Aleix Quintana García, Simon Settele, Alexander Högele, Núria Crivillers, and Jana Zaumseil*

Citation and DOI:

ACS Nano 2021, 15, 3, 5147–5157

Publication Date:February 18, 2021

https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.0c10341

PlumX: Interaction of Luminescent Defects in Carbon Nanotubes with Covalently Attached Stable Organic Radicals

The functionalization of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) with luminescent sp³ defects has greatly improved their performance in applications such as quantum light sources and bioimaging. Here, we report the covalent functionalization of purified semiconducting SWCNTs with stable organic radicals (perchlorotriphenylmethyl, PTM) carrying a net spin.

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Organic Polyradicals as Redox Mediators: Effect of Intramolecular Radical Interactions on Their Efficiency

Written by icmab on 16 February 2021.

Autores: Elena Badetti*, Vega Lloveras, Emanuele Amadio, Rosalia Di Lorenzo, Mara Olivares-Marín, Alvaro Y. Tesio, Songbai Zhang, Fangfang Pan, Kari Rissanen, Jaume Veciana, Dino Tonti*, Jose Vidal-Gancedo*, Cristiano Zonta, and Giulia Licini*

Citation and DOI:

ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2020, 12, 41, 45968–45975

Publication Date:September 15, 2020

DOI:https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsami.0c09386

PlumX: Organic Polyradicals as Redox Mediators: Effect of Intramolecular Radical Interactions on Their Efficiency

The spin–spin interactions between unpaired electrons in organic (poly)radicals, especially nitroxides, are largely investigated and are of crucial importance for their applications in areas such as organic magnetism, molecular charge transfer, or multiple spin labeling in structural biology. Recently, 2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidinyloxyl and polymers functionalized with nitroxides have been described as successful redox mediators in several electrochemical applications; however, the study of spin–spin interaction effect in such an area is absent.

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Metallacarboranes as Photoredox Catalysts in Water

Written by icmab on 02 February 2021.

Autores: Isabel Guerrero, Dr. Zsolt Kelemen, Prof. Dr. Clara Viñas, Dr. Isabel Romero, Prof. Dr. Francesc Teixidor

Citation and DOI:

Chem. Eur. J. 2020, 26, 5027
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.201905395

PlumX: Metallacarboranes as Photoredox Catalysts in Water

Metallacarboranes with the shape of the Greek letter θ, such as [Co(C₂B₉H₁₁)₂]⁻, were tested, for the first time, as efficient photoredox catalysts in the oxidation of aromatic and aliphatic alcohols in water. Their efficiency is linked to their high solubility in water, their high oxidizing power (Co^4+/3+), and their absence of fluorescence on excitation, among others.

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Resistive Switching Observation in a Gallium-Based Liquid Metal/Graphene Junction

Written by icmab on 22 January 2021.

Autores: Diego Gutiérrez, Jesús Alejandro de Sousa, Marta Mas-Torrent, and Núria Crivillers*

Citation and DOI:

ACS Appl. Electron. Mater. 2020, 2, 10, 3093–3099

Publication Date:September 13, 2020

https://doi.org/10.1021/acsaelm.0c00296

PlumX: Resistive Switching Observation in a Gallium-Based Liquid Metal/Graphene Junction

Resistive switching effect is observed for a gallium–indium/gallium oxide/graphene junction. The use of a gallium-based liquid metal (LM) alloy, in this case, the eutectic gallium–indium with its native gallium oxide skin, directly provides the metal top contact and the oxide layer needed to fabricate a memory.

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Stability of radical-functionalized gold surfaces by self-assembly and on-surface chemistry

Written by icmab on 12 January 2021.

Autores: Tobias Junghoefer, Ewa Malgorzata Nowik-Boltyk, J. Alejandro de Sousa, Erika Giangrisostomi, Ruslan Ovsyannikov, Thomas Chassé, Jaume Veciana, Marta Mas-Torrent, Concepció Rovira, Núria Crivillers and Maria Benedetta Casu *

Citation and DOI: Chem. Sci., 2020,11, 9162-9172
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/D0SC03399E

PlumX: Stability of radical-functionalized gold surfaces by self-assembly and on-surface chemistry

We have investigated the radical functionalization of gold surfaces with a derivative of the perchlorotriphenylmethyl (PTM) radical using two methods: by chemisorption from the radical solution and by on-surface chemical derivation from a precursor.

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Electrocatalytic oxidative Z/E isomerization of a stilbene favoured by the presence of an electroactive persistent radical

Written by icmab on 01 January 2021.

Autores: Paula Mayorga-Burrezo, * Christian Sporer, J. Alejandro de Sousa, Nicola Capra, Klaus Wurst, Núria Crivillers, Jaume Veciana and Concepció Rovira *.

Citation and DOI: Chem. Commun., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/D0CC04973E

PlumX: Electrocatalytic oxidative Z/E isomerization of a stilbene favoured by the presence of an electroactive persistent radical

A push–pull-functionalized stilbene has been prepared, with an electroactive perchlorotriphenylmethyl (PTM˙) radical and dimethylamine units as electron-withdrawing and -donating moieties, respectively, showing an electrocatalytic redox-induced Z → E isomerization where the open-shell nature of PTM˙ plays a key role in the isomerization ocurrance.

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Nanoscale Mapping of the Conductivity and Interfacial Capacitance of an Electrolyte‐Gated Organic Field‐Effect Transistor under Operation

Written by icmab on 25 December 2020.

Título : Nanoscale Mapping of the Conductivity and Interfacial Capacitance of an Electrolyte‐Gated Organic Field‐Effect Transistor under Operation

Autores: Adrica Kyndiah, Martí Checa, Francesca Leonardi, Ruben Millan‐Solsona, Martina Di Muzio, Shubham Tanwar, Laura Fumagalli, Marta Mas‐Torrent, Gabriel Gomila

Citation and DOI: Adv. Funct. Mater. 2020, 2008032.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202008032

PlumX: Nanoscale Mapping of the Conductivity and Interfacial Capacitance of an Electrolyte‐Gated Organic Field‐Effect Transistor under Operation

Probing nanoscale electrical properties of organic semiconducting materials at the interface with an electrolyte solution under externally applied voltages is key in the field of organic bioelectronics. It is demonstrated that the conductivity and interfacial capacitance of the active channel of an electrolyte‐gated organic field‐effect transistor (EGOFET) under operation can be probed at the nanoscale using scanning dielectric microscopy in force detection mode in liquid environment.

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Label-free immunodetection of α-synuclein by using a microfluidics coplanar electrolyte-gated organic field-effect transistor

Written by icmab on 18 December 2020.

Título : Label-free immunodetection of α-synuclein by using a microfluidics coplanar electrolyte-gated organic field-effect transistor

Autores: Simona Ricci, Stefano Casalini, Vitaliy Parkula, Meenu Selvaraj, Gulseren Deniz Saygin, Pierpaolo Greco, Fabio Biscarini, Marta Mas-Torrent

Citation and DOI: Biosensors and Bioelectronics Volume 167, 1 November 2020, 112433.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bios.2020.112433

PlumX: Label-free immunodetection of α-synuclein by using a microfluidics coplanar electrolyte-gated organic field-effect transistor

The aggregation of α-synuclein is a critical event in the pathogenesis of neurological diseases, such as Parkinson or Alzheimer. Here, we present a label-free sensor based on an Electrolyte-Gated Organic Field-Effect Transistor (EGOFET) integrated with microfluidics that allows for the detection of amounts of α-synuclein in the range from 0.25 pM to 25 nM. The lower limit of detection (LOD) measures the potential of our integrated device as a tool for prognostics and diagnostics.

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Enhancing Long‐Term Device Stability Using Thin Film Blends of Small Molecule Semiconductors and Insulating Polymers to Trap Surface‐Induced Polymorphs

Written by icmab on 04 December 2020.

Autores: Tommaso Salzillo, Antonio Campos, Adara Babuji, Raul Santiago, Stefan T. Bromley, Carmen Ocal, Esther Barrena, Rémy Jouclas, Christian Ruzie, Guillaume Schweicher, Yves H. Geerts, Marta Mas‐Torrent.

Citation and DOI: Adv. Funct. Mater.2020, 2006115.
https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202006115

PlumX: Enhancing Long‐Term Device Stability Using Thin Film Blends of Small Molecule Semiconductors and Insulating Polymers to Trap Surface‐Induced Polymorphs

The lack of long‐term stability in thin films of organic semiconductors can often be caused by the low structural stability of metastable phases that are frequently formed upon deposition on a substrate surface. Here, thin films of 2,7‐dioctyloxy[1]benzothieno[3,2‐b]benzothiophene (C₈O‐BTBT‐OC₈) and blends of this material with polystyrene by solution shearing are fabricated.

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Conservation of structural arrangements and 3:1 stoichiometry in a series of crystalline conductors of TMTTF, TMTSF, BEDT-TTF, and chiral DM-EDT-TTF with the oxo-bis[pentafluorotantalate(V)] dianion

Written by icmab on 24 November 2020.

Autores: Nabil Mroweh, Cécile Mézière, Magali Allain, Pascale Auban-Senzier, Enric Canadell * and Narcis Avarvari *.

Citation and DOI: Chem. Sci., 2020, 11, 10078-10091.
DOI: 10.1039/D0SC03665J

PlumX: Conservation of structural arrangements and 3[thin space (1/6-em)]:[thin space (1/6-em)]1 stoichiometry in a series of crystalline conductors of TMTTF, TMTSF, BEDT-TTF, and chiral DM-EDT-TTF with the oxo-bis[pentafluorotantalate(V)] dianion

The occurrence of isostructural conducting radical cation salts of diversely substituted tetrathiafulvalene (TTF) precursors with the same anion is most often limited to very similar derivatives such as tetramethyl-tetrathiafulvalene (TMTTF) and tetramethyl-tetraselenafulvalene (TMTSF).

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Neutral Organic Radical Formation by Chemisorption on Metal Surfaces

Written by icmab on 20 November 2020.

Autores: M. R. Ajayakumar, César Moreno*, Isaac Alcón, Francesc Illas, Concepció Rovira, Jaume Veciana, Stefan T. Bromley*, Aitor Mugarza, and Marta Mas-Torrent*.

Citation and DOI: J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2020, 11, 10, 3897–3904.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.0c00269

PlumX: Neutral Organic Radical Formation by Chemisorption on Metal Surfaces

Organic radical monolayers (r-MLs) bonded to metal surfaces are potential materials for the development of molecular (spin)electronics. Typically, stable radicals bearing surface anchoring groups are used to generate r-MLs.

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Surface specificity and mechanistic pathway of de-fluorination of C60F48 on coinage metals

Written by icmab on 17 November 2020.

Título : Surface specificity and mechanistic pathway of de-fluorination of C₆₀F₄₈ on coinage metals

Autores: Rogger Palacios-Rivera, David C. Malaspina, Nir Tessler, Olga Solomeshch, Jordi Faraudo,* Esther Barrena* and Carmen Ocal.

Citation and DOI: Nanoscale Adv., 2020, Advance Article.
https://doi.org/10.1039/D0NA00513D

PlumX: Surface specificity and mechanistic pathway of de-fluorination of C60F48 on coinage metals

We provide experimental and theoretical understanding on fundamental processes taking place at room temperature when a fluorinated fullerene dopant gets close to a metal surface. By employing scanning tunneling microscopy and photoelectron spectroscopies, we demonstrate that the on-surface integrity of C₆₀F₄₈ depends on the interaction with the particular metal it approaches.

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Selection of the two enantiotropic polymorphs of diF-TES-ADT in solution sheared thin film transistors

Written by icmab on 13 November 2020.

Autores: Tommaso Salzillo, Nieves Montes, Raphael Pfattner and Marta Mas-Torrent *

Citation and DOI: J. Mater. Chem. C, 2020, Advance Article
https://doi.org/10.1039/D0TC03222K

PlumX: Selection of the two enantiotropic polymorphs of diF-TES-ADT in solution sheared thin film transistors

We report the effect of solution shearing speed on the performances of diF-TES-ADT-based OFETs. X-ray diffraction reveals that th low-temperature phase is predominant at low shearing speed, while, upon increasing the speed, the high-tempertature phase prevails. The effect of polymorph composition on the electrical performances is reported with the best mobilities found in a mixture of the two polymorphs.

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Dibenzocycloheptatriene as end-group of Thiele and tetrabenzo-Chichibabin hydrocarbons

Written by icmab on 06 November 2020.

Autores: Vicente G Jiménez, Paula Mayorga Burrezo, Victor Blanco, Vega Lloveras, Carlos J. Gomez Garcia, Tomas Solomek, Juan Manuel Cuerva, Jaume Veciana and Araceli G. Campaña

Citation and DOI: Chem. Commun., 2020, Accepted Manuscript.
https://doi.org/10.1039/D0CC04489J

PlumX: Dibenzocycloheptatriene as end-group of Thiele and tetrabenzo-Chichibabin hydrocarbons

Thiele (Th) and tetrabenzo-Chichibabin (TBC) derivatives with terminal dibenzocycloheptatriene (DBHept) units were prepared. A clear correlation between their electronic and molecular structures was stablished. Insights into their closed- or open-shell ground states were gained, where particular contribution of the heptagonal carbocycles as end-groups was proved. Remarkably, a thermally accessible triplet diradical configuration was confirmed for the DBHept-TBC compound.

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In Search of Chiral Molecular Superconductors: κ‐[(S,S)‐DM‐BEDT‐TTF]2ClO4 Revisited

Written by icmab on 30 October 2020.

Título : In Search of Chiral Molecular Superconductors: κ‐[(S,S)‐DM‐BEDT‐TTF]₂ClO₄ Revisited

Autores: Nabil Mroweh, Cécile Mézière, Flavia Pop, Pascale Auban‐Senzier, Pere Alemany, Enric Canadell ,Narcis Avarvari

Citation and DOI: Adv. Mater.2020, 32, 2002811.
https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202002811

PlumX: In Search of Chiral Molecular Superconductors: κ‐[(S,S)‐DM‐BEDT‐TTF]2ClO4 Revisited

The relationship between chirality and superconductivity is an intriguing question. The two enantiomeric crystalline radical cation salts κ‐[(S,S)‐DM‐BEDT‐TTF]₂ClO₄ and κ‐[(R,R)‐DM‐BEDT‐TTF]₂ClO₄, showing κ‐type arrangement of the organic layers, are investigated in search for superconducting chiral molecular materials following a 1992 report indicating the occurrence of a superconducting transition in the former compound.

While the initial interpretation is presently challenged through in‐depth temperature and pressure dependent single crystal resistivity measurements combined with band structure calculations, the two chiral conductors show metal like behavior with room temperature conductivities of 10–30 S cm⁻¹ at ambient pressure and stabilization of the metallic state down to the lowest temperatures under moderate pressures.

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Double Beneficial Role of Fluorinated Fullerene Dopants on Organic Thin-Film Transistors: Structural Stability and Improved Performance

Written by icmab on 25 August 2020.

The present work assesses improved carrier injection in organic field-effect transistors by contact doping and provides fundamental insight into the multiple impacts that the dopant/semiconductor interface details have on the long-term and thermal stability of devices.

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Reversibly switchable fluorescent molecular systems based on metallacarborane‐perylenediimide conjugates

Written by icmab on 14 August 2020.

Icosahedral metallacarboranes are θ‐shaped anionic molecules in which two icosahedra share one vertex that is a metal center. The most remarkable of these compounds is the anionic cobalt‐based metallacarborane [Co(C₂B₉H₁₁)₂]^‐, whose oxidation‐reduction processes occur via an outer sphere electron process.

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Impact of Nanomorphology on Surface Doping of Organic Semiconductors: The Pentacene–C60F48 Interface

Written by icmab on 28 July 2020.

Establishing the rather complex correlation between the structure and the charge transfer in organic–organic heterostructures is of utmost importance for organic electronics and requires spatially resolved structural, chemical, and electronic details.

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Morphology and mobility as tools to control and unprecedentedly enhance X-ray sensitivity in organic thin-films

Written by icmab on 12 June 2020.

Organic semiconductor materials exhibit a great potential for the realization of large-area solution-processed devices able to directly detect high-energy radiation. However, only few works investigated on the mechanism of ionizing radiation detection in this class of materials, so far.

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Too Persistent to Give Up: Aromaticity in Boron Clusters Survives Radical Structural Changes

Written by icmab on 09 June 2020.

o-C₂B₁₀H₁₂ isomerizes to m-C₂B₁₀H₁₂ upon heating at 400 °C. Deboronation in o-C₂B₁₀H₁₂ is a relatively easy process, whereas it is more difficult in m-C₂B₁₀H₁₂. These two experimental facts indicate that m-C₂B₁₀H₁₂ is thermodynamically more stable than o-C₂B₁₀H₁₂.

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Tuning the structure and flexibility of coordination polymers via solvent control of tritopic triazine conformation during crystallization

Written by Jags on 24 April 2020.

Nuria Portoles-Gil, Ana M. López-Periago, Alejandro Borras, Julio Fraile, Eduardo Solano, Oriol Vallcorba, Jose G. Planas, José A. Ayllón, Concepción Domingo. Cryst. Growth Des. 2020.
Publication Date: March 18, 2020

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Redox-Active PTM Radical Dendrimers as Promising Multifunctional Molecular Switches

Written by icmab on 11 February 2020.

Vega Lloveras, Flonja Liko, José L. Muñoz-Gómez, Jaume Veciana, José Vidal-Gancedo*. Chem. Mater. 2019, 31, 22, 9400-9412. Publication Date:October 31, 2019

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Bioelectronic Recordings of Cardiomyocytes with Accumulation Mode Electrolyte Gated Organic Field Effect Transistors

Written by icmab on 07 February 2020.

Adrica Kyndiah,Francesca Leonardi, Carolina Tarantino, TobiasCramer, Ruben Millan-Solsona, Elena Garreta, Núria Montserrat, Marta Mas-Torrent, Gabriel Gomila. Biosensors and Bioelectronics. Available online 6 November 2019, 111844.

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Exploiting the versatile alkyne-based chemistry for expanding the applications of a stable triphenylmethyl organic radical on surfaces

Written by icmab on 24 January 2020.

Jesús Alejandro de Sousa , Francesc Bejarano, Diego Gutiérrez, Yann Leroux, Ewa-Malgorzata Nowik Boltyk, Tobias Junghoefer, Erika Giangrisostomi, Ruslan Ovsyannikov, Maria Benedetta Casu, Jaume Veciana, Marta Mas-Torrent, Bruno Fabre, Concepció Rovira and Nuria Crivillers. Chem. Sci., 2019, Accepted Manuscript.

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Impact of the Ink Formulation and Coating Speed on the Polymorphism and Morphology of a Solution‐Sheared Thin Film of a Blended Organic Semiconductor

Written by icmab on 20 December 2019.

Adrián Tamayo, Sergi Riera‐Galindo, Andrew O. F. Jones, Roland Resel, Marta Mas‐Torrent. Adv. Mater. Interfaces 2019, 1900950.

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Atomic layer deposition of functional multicomponent oxides

Written by icmab on 17 December 2019.

Mariona Coll, and Mari Napari. APL Materials 7, 110901 (2019);

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Solution-processed thin films of a charge transfer complex for ambipolar field-effect transistors

Written by icmab on 12 December 2019.

Tommaso Salzillo, Antonio Campos and Marta Mas-Torrent. J. Mater. Chem. C, 2019,7, 10257-10263.

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A Solid‐State Aqueous Electrolyte‐Gated Field‐Effect Transistor as a Low‐Voltage Operation Pressure‐Sensitive Platform

Written by icmab on 03 December 2019.

Qiaoming Zhang, Francesca Leonardi, Raphael Pfattner, Marta Mas‐Torrent. Adv. Mater. Interfaces 2019, 6, 1900719

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Are the Accompanying Cations of Doping Anions Influential in Conducting Organic Polymers? The Case of the Popular PEDOT

Written by icmab on 04 November 2019.

Dr. Isabel Fuentes, Dr. María José Mostazo‐López, Dr. Zsolt Kelemen, Prof. Dr. Vicente Compañ, Dr. Andreu Andrio, Prof. Dr. Emilia Morallón, Prof. Dr. Diego Cazorla‐Amorós, Prof. Dr. Clara Viñas, Prof. Dr. Francesc Teixidor. Chemistry A European Journal, 06 August 2019.

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