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most citedUncovering the Triplet Ground State of Triangular Graphene Nanoflakes Engineered with Atomic Precision on a Metal Surface

189 citations · 760 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 4 cited

From Solution to Surface: Persistence of the Diradical Character of a Diindenoanthracene Derivative on a Metallic Substrate

Jeremy Hieulle, Carlos Garcia Fernandez, Niklas Friedrich +7

Organic diradicals are envisioned as elementary building blocks for designing a new generation of spintronic devices and have been used in constructing prototypical field effect tr…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024★ 8 cited

Tunable Current Rectification Through a Designer Graphene Nanoribbon

Niklas Friedrich, Jingcheng Li, Iago Pozo +2

Unimolecular current rectifiers are fundamental building blocks in organic electronics. Rectifying behavior has been identified in numerous organic systems due to electron-hole asy…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024★ 21 cited

Tuning the Spin Interaction in Non-planar Organic Diradicals Through Mechanical Manipulation

Alessio Vegliante, Saleta Fernandez, Ricardo Ortiz +12

Open-shell polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) represent promising building blocks for carbon-based functional magnetic materials. Their magnetic properties stem from the prese…

cond-mat.mes-hall2023★ 17 cited

Fluorescent single-molecule STM probe

Niklas Friedrich, Anna Roslawska, Xabier Arrieta +7

The plasmonic tip of a scanning tunnelling microscope (STM) is functionalized with a single fluorescent molecule and is scanned on a plasmonic substrate. The tunneling current flow…

cond-mat.mes-hall2023★ 37 cited

On-Surface Synthesis and Characterization of a High-Spin Aza-[5]-Triangulene

Manuel Vilas-Varela, Francisco Romero-Lara, Alessio Vegliante +13

Triangulenes are open-shell triangular graphene flakes with total spin increasing with their size. In the last years, on-surface-synthesis strategies have permitted fabricating and…

cond-mat.mes-hall2022★ 35 cited

Addressing electron spins embedded in metallic graphene nanoribbons

Niklas Friedrich, Rodrigo E. Menchon, Iago Pozo +7

Spin-hosting graphene nanostructures are promising metal-free systems for elementary quantum spintronic devices. Conventionally, spins are protected from quenching by electronic ba…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 144 cited

Aza-Triangulene: On-Surface Synthesis, Electronic and Magnetic Properties

Tao Wang, Alejandro Berdonces-Layunta, Niklas Friedrich +7

Nitrogen heteroatom doping into a triangulene molecule allows tuning its magnetic state. However, the synthesis of the nitrogen-doped triangulene (aza-triangulene) has been challen…

cond-mat.mes-hall2021★ 133 cited

On-surface synthesis and collective spin excitations of a triangulene-based nanostar

Jeremy Hieulle, Silvia Castro, Niklas Friedrich +8

Triangulene nanographenes are open-shell molecules with predicted high spin state due to the frustration of their conjugated network. Their long-sought synthesis became recently po…

cond-mat.mes-hall2020★ 113 cited

Magnetism of topological boundary states induced by boron substitution in graphene nanoribbons

Niklas Friedrich, Pedro Brandimarte, Jingcheng Li +8

Graphene nanoribbons (GNRs), low-dimensional platforms for carbon-based electronics, show the promising perspective to also incorporate spin polarization in their conjugated electr…

cond-mat.mes-hall2019★ 189 cited

Uncovering the Triplet Ground State of Triangular Graphene Nanoflakes Engineered with Atomic Precision on a Metal Surface

Jingcheng Li, Sofia Sanz, Jesus Castro-Esteban +5

Graphene can develop large magnetic moments in custom crafted open-shell nanostructures such as triangulene, a triangular piece of graphene with zigzag edges. Current methods of en…

cond-mat.mes-hall2019★ 59 cited

Electrically addressing the spin of a magnetic porphyrin through covalently connected graphene electrodes

Jingcheng Li, Niklas Friedrich, Nestor Merino +4

We report on the fabrication and transport characterization of atomically-precise single molecule devices consisting of a magnetic porphyrin covalently wired by graphene nanoribbon…