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10/2022 "ERC Synergy Grant for PriOSS chemist Michael Gottfried"
European Research Council funds search for unusual ring-shaped carbon compounds for applications in organic electronics
Prof. Dr. Michael Gottfried from the University of Marburg has received an ERC Synergy Grant from the European Research Council (ERC) together with Prof. Dr. Michael Mastalerz from the University of Heidelberg and Prof. Dr. Holger Bettinger from the University of Tübingen. With their project "Tackling the Cyclacene Challenge" (TACY), the three researchers are pursuing the goal of generating a special class of ring-shaped carbon compounds - the cyclacenes - for the first time. The European Research Council is funding the project with around 11 million euros. Of this, around 4.5 million euros is earmarked for the research work at Philipps-Universität Marburg.
04/2022 "A deep look into the molecule"
Original Publication
Daniel Martin-Jimenez, Michael G. Ruppert, Alexander Ihle, Sebastian Ahles, Hermann A. Wegner, André Schirmeisen and Daniel Ebeling. "Chemical bond imaging using torsional and flexural higher eigenmodes of qPlus sensors." Nanoscale 14, 5329, 2022 (Cover Article). https://doi.org/10.1039/D2NR01062C
04/2022 "Organic chemistry under extreme conditions: Prof. Peter R. Schreiner receives ERC Advanced Grant"
Top researcher at the Institute of Organic Chemistry at the University of Giessen awarded the most important European funding prize - 2.5 million euros for the next five years
09/2021 "Handmade Nanoarchitectures"
In a recent paper in Nature Chemistry we show how to build nanostructures using individual organic molecules one by one with an atomic force microscope. This opens the path to prototyping of new molecular structures, otherwise impossible to fabricate.
Original Publication
Q. Zhong, A. Ihle, S. Ahlers, H.A. Wegner, A. Schirmeisen, D. Ebeling. "Constructing covalent organic nanoarchitectures molecule by molecule via scanning probe manipulation" Nature Chemistry, 2021