Surface-Confined Self-Assembly of Di-carbonitrile Polyphenyls (original) (raw)

2011, Advanced Functional Materials

Scheme 1. Schematic representation of the described bottom-up structuring approaches: surface-confi ned supramolecular organic arrays (left) and metal-directed assembly of coordination networks (right). Mario Ruben obtained his PhD in 1998 from the University of Jena, Germany, under supervision of Prof. D. Walther. During a DAAD post-doctoral fellowship he worked in Prof. J.-M. Lehn´s research group at the ISIS-ULP in Strasbourg, France. 2001 he moved to the Institute of Nanotechnology in Karlsruhe, where he is currently working as a group leader. In addition, he accepted a position as professor at the Université de Strasbourg, France, in 2010. His research interests involve the design, synthesis and physical characterization of functional molecule-based systems and their implementation into operational nanosystems. He is the coordinator of several European networks dealing with molecular nanodevices. Florian Klappenberger obtained his PhD in 2004 from the University of Regensburg, Germany, where he investigated electric transport properties of semiconductor diodes under the infl uence of intense THz radiation. During his postdoctoral activities at EPF Lausanne, Switzerland, he developed a program focusing on the design and investigation of surface-confi ned functional molecular nanostructures and organic thin fi lms. The comprehensive physico-chemical characterization is based on a multi-technique approach combining the complementary information of scanning tunnelling microscopy and spectroscopy with synchrotron radiation studies. Since 2007 he is working towards a habilitation at the TU München.