News
Azin is going on maternity leave.
28.05.2024
We wish Azin all the best! Hope you will be back.A photo from Azin's farewell party.
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Molecular carpet on silver
10.04.2024
We present a molecular layer that covers the entire surface of the silver substrate (read: electrode), is not sensitive to the orientation of the surface - works very similarly for both Ag(100) and…
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Our new JACS paper.
03.02.2024
How do different support materials like graphene and Au(111) influence the properties and reactivity of Fe-TCNQ 2D metal-organic frameworks, and what are the implications of these interactions for…
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Two new projects for the group
21.11.2023
Congratulations to Jakub and Zdeněk! Zdeněk Jakub got the Czech-Austrian GAČR-FWF project to research single-atom catalysts embedded in 2D metal-organic frameworks. On the same day, we received…
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A cover page for our work.
30.10.2023
Our paper was featured on the front page of Communications Chemistry. As an electronic journal, it does not have a cover page; a static banner replaces it.
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Danubius Price goes to Zdeněk
19.10.2023
Danubius Young Scientist Award 2023 Big congratulations to Zdeněk for winning the Danubius price as the representative of the Czech Republic! You can see his speech here: https://www…
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ProLEED Studio released!
15.09.2023
A new software developed by Pavel Procházka for the modeling of LEED patterns has just been released.You can download ProLEED Studio here. The accompanying publication is here.
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Anna won Best Poster Award at ECOSS!
01.09.2023
Congratulations to Anna for winning the best poster award at ECOSS 36!Just a day before officially starting her Ph.D. studies, Anna won the prize for a poster presenting her results of metal…
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Dominik joins the group
01.09.2023
Dominik started his Ph.D. on the organic semiconductor-graphene interface. The vision is to realize the graphene vertical variable barrier transistor.
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Jan Čechal was promoted to a professor
21.06.2023
Jan received the letter of appointment from the hands of the president of the Czech Republic, Petr Pavel, and the minister of Education, Mikuláš Bek. More in the university news, here.His thesis can…
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Anton defended his thesis!
18.05.2023
Congratulations to Anton for defending his Ph.D. thesis. Well done!
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Matthias received Best Poster Award at CEITEC Nano User Meeting.
15.05.2023
We congratulate Matthias on receiving Best Poster Award at CEITEC Nano User Meeting. He presented our initial results on molecular self-assembly on Bi2Se3 substrate. We hope for the same interest in…
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Pavel got a GAČR project
02.12.2022
Congratulations to Pavel for receiving his first GAČR project!Tunable Charge Injection Layers for Efficient Charge Transfer Through Metal Electrode-Organic Semiconductor Interface.In this project,…
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Tunable Charge Injection Layers
20.10.2022
The novel single molecular layer can boost the efficiency of organic semiconductor devices.The ability to make good electrical contact between an organic semiconductor and a metal electrode is…
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BDA on silver: phase stabilization and electron beam transformation
30.06.2022
We continue to go deeper in the understanding of our model system: BDA on silver. We have published two papers on the topic. In the first one, we describe the electron beam-induced…
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Metal-organic networks stable under ambient atmosphere
31.05.2022
Fe-TCNQ network on graphene. Fe atoms are shown as circular features that are regularly spaced by TCNQ molecules.A few years ago, we started with the synthesis of metal-organic networks on the…
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Nishant got the KING project
01.01.2022
Congratulations to Nishant for receiving the KING project. Nishant will provide a new view of near-surface oxide structure by TEM.
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New GAČR projects
08.12.2021
We have been awarded 2 GAČR projects this year. The first one concerns metal-organic networks at bismuth selenide surfaces and the second growth of organic semiconductors on graphene. Below is part…
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Congratulations to Anna for 2nd place the SHE STEM Award competition
25.11.2021
We congratulate our colleague for the second place in the SHE STEM Award competition for the best bachelor thesis by female students in technical disciplines (science, Technology, Engineering, and…
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Jakub Planer joins the group
23.11.2021
We warmly welcome our new colleague. Jakub will look at the charge injection layers from the theoretical point of view. We hope that joining our experimental efforts with his theoretical insights…
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Ph.D. defense of Lukáš
22.04.2021
Congratulations to Lukáš Kormoš! Lukáš's defense took place in online space with all the committee distributed around Europe. Lukáš showed excellent performance and was awarded by Ph.D.…
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Zdeněk Jakub got the Marie Curie Fellowship!
09.02.2021
Congratulations!Marie Sklodowska Curie Individual Fellowship provides two-year funding for researchers coming from abroad. In his project, IMAGINE, Zdeněk will develop a spintronic…
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Directors Award
08.01.2021
We have received the 2020 CEITEC Director's Award for the publication of the year
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Zdeněk Jakub joined the group
01.12.2020
After his successful Ph.D. at TU Wien, Zdeněk joined our group. He will focus on preparing single magnetic atoms in molecular networks at graphene surfaces and to develop his research on single…
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Group promotion
19.11.2020
After a successful evaluation of our group, its status was upgraded from junior to a standard CEITEC research group. We thank all the members for their hard work; without that, it would not…
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Publication is ACS Nano
20.05.2020
Our research on phase tranformation was has been published in ACS Nano.Our LEEM/XPS/STM observations combined with AFM, and DFT and KMC calculations by our collaborating partners enebled to…
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Publication in Nature Communications
30.04.2020
Our research on molecular tilings has been published in Nature communications.Tessellation of the Euclidean plane into regular polygons – tiles – is a mathematical concept for description of…
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Margareta left for Vienna
01.04.2020
After one year of postdoc time, Margareta left our group. She got Elise Richter Project to be realized at TU Wien. We wish her success!
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CEITEC student grants
01.03.2019
Veronika and Anton received CEITEC student grants for their research. Cengratulations!
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Publication in Nanoscale
08.09.2018
Our research on electron beam induced graphene doping was publidshed in nanoscale. We show thar full scale p- and n-doping can be achieved by lo energy electron beam irradiation at a specific gate…
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Twinning
11.06.2018
We have become a part of Twinning project SINNCE aimed at development of excellent-level science at CEITEC.Project Abstract:The Czech Republic (CR) is one of the most industrial members of EU with…
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Student grant award for Lukáš Kormoš
05.03.2018
Lukáš got the CEITEC funding for his research on synthesis of Ni-TCNQ on graphene surfaces. Congratulations!
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Our first paper
17.01.2018
The first paper from our group published in the Journal of Physical Chemistry. On the basis of local probe measurements we have shown that strong interaction of 4,4′-biphenyl…
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Matthias has joined our roup
19.11.2020
Matthias Blattnik joined our group coming from TU Wien. Welcome!
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