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New findings provide basis for innovative material development

If we strive for ever thinner materials, we eventually reach the two-dimensional (2D) limit, where the material is only a few atoms or even just one atom thin. These materials acquire unique mechanical, electronic and optical properties that hold great potential for innovative technologies, for example for energy conversion and storage. Physicists from the University of Graz and Forschungszentrum Jülich have now achieved a breakthrough in the development and characterisation of so-called 2D-MOFs, a special type of two-dimensional material. The scientists published their results in the renowned journals ACS Nano and Advanced Science.

Bend as you please

Geometry is key to the optical properties of plasmonic nanoparticles. Except when it isn’t.

iSCAT for all

Scientists from Graz and Wien develop simulation software for interferometric scattering microscopy

Quantum research: Images provide a better understanding of light and matter

An international team of researchers has been able to take photos of a special specimen from the world of quantum research for the first time: the exciton. The findings are to be used to generate even more electricity from sunlight using innovative photovoltaic systems.

Mie in a cylinder

Special functions beat ray-tracing: a problem in optics that can be (just barely) solved analytically

Smallest Kandinsky in the world

Quantum cinema premiered

Successful start of ERC-project “Orbital Cinema” with a publication on photoemission from excitons.

Targeting Nanostructures: Heptacene and its Versatility

On nanometer-patterned templates, the electronic properties of long-chain organic semiconductors can be deliberately tailored.