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Congratulations to Aidan, Carolin, James, Jingwei, Christina, and Adam who had their paper accepted in ACS Nano today! Here is what they did: Researchers at UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have developed a way to build two-dimensional magnetic lattices entirely from carbon atoms and probe the collective quantum behavior of their electron spins. …

Read more “Low Energy Excitations in a [4]Triangulene Honeycomb Antiferromagnet”

Congratulations to Ziyi, Kaitlin, Weichen, and Boyu who had their paper accepted in Nature Synthesis today!!! Here is what they did: Researchers at UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have developed a new way to create an atomically precise electrical connection between metallic and semiconducting regions of a single graphene nanoribbon. Graphene nanoribbons are …

Read more “Writing a Metal Inside a Single Graphene Nanoribbon”

Congratulations to Han, Jun, Yuyi, & Adam who had their paper accepted in Nano Letters today! Researchers in the Fischer group have developed a new way to build delicate two-dimensional quantum devices without using polymers, which can leave behind contamination and interfere with sensitive measurements. The approach uses ordinary muscovite mica as a clean, versatile platform for transferring, …

Read more “New Polymer-Free Approach Simplifies the Fabrication of Quantum Materials”

Huge congratulations to Christina and Adam on earning their Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley! We are incredibly proud of all your hard work, perseverance, and scientific achievements. Wishing you both continued success and exciting adventures in the next chapter!

Huge congratulations to Pranav on being awarded a 2026 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship!

Congratulations to Aidan, Michael & Weichen who had their paper accepted in The Journal of the American Chemical Society today! By engineering molecular symmetry, sublattice imbalance, and the hybridization of low-energy zero modes within the GNR unit cell, we show that the balance between kinetic energy and electron–electron interactions can be rationally tuned, giving rise …

Read more “Ferromagnetic Insulator to Metal Transition in Non-Centrosymmetric Graphene Nanoribbons”

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Congratulations to Yuyi, Fujia, Weichen, Han & Boyu who had their paper published in Nature Materials today! In this work we demonstrate how molecular engineered orbital-phase frustration within a diatomic Kagome lattice gives rise to non-trivial flat bands near the Fermi level.

Congratulations to Ziyi, Boyu, Weichen, Jingwei, Fujia, Peter, Jaiming & Xinheng who had their paper accepted in The Journal of the American Chemical Society today! While our European friends beat us to the publication (read their paper in ACIE here) we were able to show that the unusual geometry adopted by this class of conjugated …

Read more “Jahn-Teller-like Distortions in a One-Dimensional π-Conjugated Polymer”

Congratulations to Yuyi, Fujia, Weichen, Han & Boyu who had their paper accepted in Nature Materials today! In this work we demonstrate how molecular engineered orbital-phase frustration within a diatomic Kagome lattice gives rise to non-trivial flat bands near the Fermi level.