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

133 citations · 231 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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14 papers

cond-mat.mes-hall2026

Parity-dependent coupling of molecular spin chains to a superconductor

Katerina Vaxevani, Jon Ortuzar, Stefano Trivini +6

Topological order can fractionalize the quantum numbers of the underlying particles. A paradigmatic example is the spin-1/2 states at the edges of an antiferromagnetic integer-spin…

cond-mat.mes-hall2026

Selectivity in tip-induced skeletal editing via heteroatom substitution

Shantanu Mishra, Rasmus Svensson, Valentina Malave +5

Skeletal editing enables precise structural modifications of molecules at late stages of a synthetic sequence, with applications in drug discovery and materials science. We recentl…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025

Topological Engineering of a Frustrated Antiferromagnetic Triradical in Aza-Triangulene Architectures

Francisco Romero-Lara, Manuel Vilas-Varela, Manish Kumar +16

Open-shell nanographenes provide a versatile platform to host unconventional magnetic states within their π-conjugated networks. Particularly appealing are graphene architectures t…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025★ 1 cited

Skeletal editing by tip-induced chemistry

Shantanu Mishra, Valentina Malave, Rasmus Svensson +4

Skeletal editing of cyclic molecules has garnered considerable attention in the context of drug discovery and green chemistry, with notable examples in solution-phase synthesis. He…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025

A Single-Molecule Quantum Heat Engine

Serhii Volosheniuk, Riccardo Conte, Eugenia Pyurbeeva +6

Particle-exchange heat engines operate without moving parts or time-dependent driving, relying solely on static energy-selective transport. Here, we realize a particle-exchange qua…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025★ 4 cited

Spin and Charge Control of Topological End States in Chiral Graphene Nanoribbons on a 2D Ferromagnet

Leonard Edens, Francisco Romero Lara, Trisha Sai +5

Tailor-made graphene nanostructures can exhibit symmetry-protected topological boundary states that host localized spin- moments. However, one frequently observes charge trans…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025★ 14 cited

On-surface Synthesis of a Ferromagnetic Molecular Spin Trimer

Alessio Vegliante, Manuel Vilas-Varela, Ricardo Ortiz +12

Triangulenes are prototypical examples of open-shell nanographenes. Their magnetic properties, arising from the presence of unpaired electrons, can be extensively tuned by modi…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025★ 3 cited

Synthesis and characterization of a -extended Clar's goblet

Shantanu Mishra, Manuel Vilas-Varela, Igor Rončević +4

Concealed non-Kekulé polybenzenoid hydrocarbons have no sublattice imbalance yet cannot be assigned a classical Kekulé structure, leading to an open-shell ground state with potenti…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024★ 5 cited

A Route Toward the On-Surface Synthesis of Organic Ferromagnetic Quantum Spin Chains

Fabian Paschke, Ricardo Ortiz, Shantanu Mishra +5

Engineering sublattice imbalance is an intuitive way to induce high-spin ground states in bipartite polycyclic conjugated hydrocarbons (PCHs). Such high-spin molecules can be emplo…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024★ 6 cited

Systematic Modulation of Charge and Spin in Graphene Nanoribbons on MgO

Amelia Domínguez-Celorrio, Leonard Edens, Sofía Sanz +7

Graphene nanostructures can be engineered with atomic precision to display customized electronic states with application in spintronics or quantum technologies. In order to take ad…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024★ 15 cited

Observation of SOMO-HOMO inversion in a polycyclic conjugated hydrocarbon

Shantanu Mishra, Manuel Vilas-Varela, Shadi Fatayer +3

We report the generation of a non-benzenoid polycyclic conjugated hydrocarbon, which consists of a biphenyl moiety substituted by indenyl units at the 4,4' positions, on ultra-thin…

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-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…

physics.chem-ph2020★ 29 cited

Intramolecular coupling of terminal alkynes by atom manipulation

Florian Albrecht, Dulce Rey, Shadi Fatayer +4

Glaser-like coupling of terminal alkynes by thermal activation is extensively used in on-surface chemistry. Here we demonstrate an intramolecular version of this reaction performed…