Adsorption-Driven Symmetry Lowering in Single Molecules Revealed by Ångstrom-Scale Tip-Enhanced Raman Imaging

Rodrigo Cezar de Campos Ferreira, Borja Cirera, Jiří Doležal, Álvaro Gallego de Roa, Amandeep Sagwal, Petr Kahan, Rubén Canales, Fernando Aguilar-Galindo*, Martin Švec*, Pablo Merino*

Journal of The American Chemical Society

The vibrational landscape of adsorbed molecules is central to understanding surface interactions at the atomic scale, influencing phenomena from catalysis to molecular electronics.

Photoinduced Enhancement of Chemical Shift Sensitivity to Local Vibrations

Ana Martínez Gutiérrez, Oliver Alexander, Pablo Estévez Alonso, Lorenzo Paoloni, Terry Mullins, André Al-Haddad, Thomas M. Baumann, Rebecca Boll, Christoph Bostedt, Simon Dold, Alberto De Fanis, Gianluca Geloni, Markus Ilchen, Iyas Ismail, Björn Lautenschlager, Tommaso Mazza, Dooshaye Moonshiram, Solène Oberli, Dawei Peng, Ralph Püttner, Svitozar Serkez, Marc Simon, Florian Trinter, Sergey Usenko, Michael Meyer, Jonathan P. Marangos, Jesús González-Vázquez, Daniel E. Rivas*, Antonio Picón*

Journal of the American Chemical Society

. This insight opens new avenues for exploring ultrafast dynamics and conical intersection pathways in more complex systems, from photostable DNA bases to light-harvesting materials.

The Coupling of Ferroelectric Polarization and Oxygen Vacancy Migration Enables Electrically Controlled Thermal Memories

Dídac Barneo, Miquel Royo, Rafael Ramos, Jesús Carrete, Hugo Romero-Bernad, Ricardo Jiménez, Víctor Leborán, César Magén, Noa Varela-Domínguez, Miguel Algueró, Riccardo Rurali, José A. Pardo, Francisco Rivadulla, Eric Langenberg

Advanced Materials

Domain Wall Rebounds Driven by Competing Entropic and Spin-Transfer Torques in Cylindrical Nanowires

Elias Saugar, Jorge Marqués-Marchán, Sara Catalano, Agustina Asenjo, Michael Foerster, Miguel Angel Niño, Manuel Vazquez, Fèlix Casanova, Arantxa Fraile Rodríguez, Rafael P. Del Real, Oksana Chubykalo-Fesenko*, Cristina Bran*

Advanced Functional Materials

https://advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adfm.202525734

Hybrid Solar Cell/Triboelectric Nanogenerator Based on Stable Two-Dimensional Covalent Organic Frameworks

Joab D. Guerrero, Susana Ramos-Terrón, Salvador R. G. Balestra, José M. Malagón, David Aparicio, Lucia Velasco, Asterios Charisiadis, Dooshaye Moonshiram, Margarita Darder, Pilar Aranda, Bernd Wicklein, Gustavo de Miguel, Javier Pérez-Carvajal*, Eva M. García-Frutos*

Advanced Functional Materials

$Images of the (a) FTO glass substrate (transparent) and the F-TpPa1 thin film deposited onto it. (b) AFM topological images of F-TpPa1, showing below the measured profile indicated by the dashed line for the determination of the thin film thickness. (c) FTIR spectra of TpPa1, F-TpPa1, and FTO. (d) Tauc plot of F-TpPa1. (e) GIWAXS of F-TpPa1 from 0 to 10q. (f) XRD diffraction patterns of F-TpPa1, and the simulation of the staggered and eclipsed disposition of the TpPa1 structure.$

Scalable Conformal Electronics Based on Roll-to-Roll Exfoliated van der Waals Semiconductors

Yigit Sozen*, Esteban Zamora-Amo, Juan J. Riquelme, Andres Castellanos-Gomez*

ACS Nano

Scalable Conformal Electronics Based on Roll-to-Roll Exfoliated van der Waals Semiconductors

Wafer-scale films of two-dimensional materials via roll-to-roll mechanical exfoliation

Yigit Sozen, Thomas Pucher, Bhagyanath Paliyottil Kesavan, Nuria Jiménez-Arévalo, Julia Hernandez-Ruiz , Zdenek Sofer, Carmen Munuera, Juan J. Riquelme, Andres Castellanos-Gomez*

Nano Materials Science

This work highlights the potential of high-throughput mechanical exfoliation as a cost-effective and reliable route for large-scale production of 2D material-based devices

The important role of hydrogen in the formation of silicon carbide in evolved stars

Guillermo Tajuelo-Castilla, Gonzalo Santoro*, Lidia Martínez, Pablo Merino, José Ignacio Martínez, Pedro L. de Andres, Gary J. Ellis, Álvaro Mayoral, Ramón J. Peláez, Isabel Tanarro, Marcelino Agúndez, Sandra Wiersma, Hassan Sabbah, José Cernicharo*, Christine Joblin* & José Ángel Martín-Gago*

Nature Astronomy

Morphology and elemental distribution of silicon carbide nanodust.

Controlled synthesis of MOF-derived Ce–Ln mixed oxides: influence of lanthanide doping and supported Ni on CO₂ conversion through the reverse water gas shift reaction

Carlos Martínez-Gómez, Raluca Loredana Vasile, Belén Bachiller-Baeza, Ana Serrano-Lotina, Felipe Gándara*, Consuelo Álvarez-Galván*

Chemical Engineering Journal

Catalysts exhibit good thermal stability at 700 °C.

Atomically Precise Engineering of Synergistic Binding Sites in a Zirconium Metal–Organic Framework for the Capture of Perfluorooctanoic Acid

Sergio Marugán-Benito, Michalis Vlachos, Lutz Ahrens, Miguel Roselló-González, Carlo Marini, Jordi Prat Albert, Andreas Mavrandonakis*, Edward Loukopoulos*, Ana E. Platero-Prats*

Journal of the American Chemical Society

. Overall, mechanistic insights gained from this study highlight the critical role of designing specific chemical environments within MOFs to maximize pollutant-sorbent interactions.

Clay-polysaccharides as engineered nanoplatforms for cancer treatment

Eduardo Ruiz-Hitzky, Celia Martín-Morales, Ana Barra, Cláudia Nunes, Paula Ferreira

Carbohydrate Polymers

Fig. 1. Representative structures of clay minerals discussed in this review: (a) kaolinite, (b) montmorillonite, (c) sepiolite, (d) halloysite and (e) LDH.

Single-shot parity readout of a minimal Kitaev chain

Nick van Loo, Francesco Zatelli, Gorm O. Steffensen, Bart Roovers, Guanzhong Wang, Thomas Van Caekenberghe, Alberto Bordin, David van Driel, Yining Zhang, Wietze D. Huisman, Ghada Badawy, Erik P. A. M. Bakkers, Grzegorz P. Mazur, Ramón Aguado & Leo P. Kouwenhoven

Nature

Minimal Kitaev chain and parity measurement set-up.

Inducing Reactivity by Cluster Strain in Titanium Frameworks

Eloy P. Gómez-Oliveira, Vitor Fernandes de Almeida, Javier Castells-Gil, Herme G. Baldoví, Felipe Gándara, Neyvis Almora-Barrios, Sergio Tatay, Sergio Navalón*, Natalia M. Padial*, Carlos Martí-Gastaldo*

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Among the many applications of metal–organic frameworks (MOFs), heterogeneous catalysis stands out as a particularly compelling example of their potential.

Signatures of Edge States in Antiferromagnetic Van der Waals Josephson Junctions

Celia González-Sánchez, Ignacio Sardinero, Jorge Cuadra, Alfredo Spuri, José A. Moreno, Hermann Suderow, Elke Scheer, Pablo Burset, Angelo Di Bernardo, Rubén Seoane Souto, Eduardo J. H. Lee

Advanced Materials

Antiferromagnetic van der Waals Josephson junctions.

Probing the molecular structure at graphite–water interfaces by correlating 3D-AFM and SHINERS

Lalith Krishna, Samanth Bonagiri, Diana M. Arvelo, Fujia Zhao, Jaehyeon Kim, Qian Ai, Shan Zhou, Kaustubh S. Panse, Ricardo Garcia* & Yingjie Zhang*

Nature Communications

Fig. 1: Schematic of the measurement setups.

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Adsorption-Driven Symmetry Lowering in Single Molecules Revealed by Ångstrom-Scale Tip-Enhanced Raman Imaging

Photoinduced Enhancement of Chemical Shift Sensitivity to Local Vibrations

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Wafer-scale films of two-dimensional materials via roll-to-roll mechanical exfoliation

Nano Materials Science

Atomically Precise Engineering of Synergistic Binding Sites in a Zirconium Metal–Organic Framework for the Capture of Perfluorooctanoic Acid

Clay-polysaccharides as engineered nanoplatforms for cancer treatment

Carbohydrate Polymers

Probing the molecular structure at graphite–water interfaces by correlating 3D-AFM and SHINERS

Nature Communications

Susana Sáiz, new member of the ICMM Human Resources department

Meet Álvaro Campos, member of Maintenance department

Cristina Dipollina, new PhD researcher at the Q4Q group

Daniel Rizo, new PhD researcher at Nanomagnetism and Magnetization Processes group

Adrián Carreño, new PhD at SUPREMA and Nanomagnetism and Magnetization Processes groups

Roberto Moreno, postdoc researcher at the Nanomagnetism and Magnetic Processes group

Natalia Casais joins the International Projects Office at the ICMM

Lingfei Yang, new PhD researcher at Heterostructures for Optics and Optoelectronics group

Monday, July 20, 2026 - 09:00

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