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Research profile Key personnel Core expertise Unique infrastructure Contact Projects • Scanning probe microscopy (SPM) under ambient conditions and in liquids • Nanochemistry on surfaces • Modification of surfaces with molecules via self-assembly: surface engineering, surface nanopatterning, surface chirality, surface reactivity • On-surface synthesis of 2D polymers • Functionalization and modification of 2D materials, including graphene • Biosystems on surfaces • Prof. Steven De Feyter • 10 postdoctoral researchers • 10 PhD students Nanochemistry and self-assembly as key competences to modify and nanopattern surfaces, with a focus on 2D crystal engineering, templating, dynamics and reactivity. These studies bring insight in the fundamental aspects of molecular organisation on surfaces, as well as the formation, modification and use of these nanostructured functional surfaces (e.g. 2D materials). The liquid-solid interface is the preferred environment. Also biomolecular systems (DNA, proteins, their complexes, etc.) are investigated, with a focus on those that are involved in disease related processes. Scanning probe microscopy and spectroscopy techniques such as STM and AFM are particularly useful to probe the structural, dynamic, and electronic properties of these surface-confined molecular systems. • Scanning probe microscopes (SPM) • Scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) under environmental control • Atomic force microscopy (AFM) under environmental control • Combined SPM and optical microscopes • SPM-based nanolithography Dept. of Chemistry, Division of Molecular Imaging and Photonics, Laboratory of Photochemistry and Spectroscopy Nanochemistry & SPM Group Leuven Chem&Tech Celestijnenlaan 200F 3001 Leuven [email protected] • H2020-FETOPEN-2014-2015-RIA: “Redesigning 2D Materials for the Formulation of Semiconducting Inks (2D-INK)” • FLAG-ERA JTC 2015: “2D functional MX2/graphene hetero-structures (2D- FUN)” • KULeuven C1: “Physicochemical properties and chemical reactivity of 0D, 2D and 3D materials at the nanometer and micrometer- scale” • ERC Advanced Grant 340324 - NANOGRAPH@LSI: "Nanostructuring graphene and graphitic substrates for controlled and reproducible functionalisation" Division of Molecuar Imaging and Photonics: Nanochemistry & SPM group
