Imaging titan's organic haze at atomic scale
- Fabian Schulz
- Julien Maillard
- et al.
- 2021
- Astrophysical Journal Letters
Bio
Leo Gross has been with the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory since 2005. First as a postdoc in the group of Gerhard Meyer and since 2009 as Research Staff Member. He is the team lead of the atom and molecule manipulation group. He studies molecules and on-surface reactions by scanning tunnelling microscopy (STM) and atomic force microscopy (AFM). He develops and applies AFM as a tool for molecular synthesis, structure elucidation and investigation of single-electron charging and charge transfer on the atomic scale.
Leo received his PhD in Physics in 2005 from the Free University of Berlin in the group of Prof. K.-H. Rieder.
Awards and Grants:
APS Fellow, 2022
ERC Synergy Grant "Single Molecular Devices by Atom Manipulation" (MolDAM), 2021
Debye Visiting Chair, Utrecht University, 2020
Silver Combustion Medal, 2020
ERC Consolidator Grant "AFM for Molecular Structure Elucidation" (AMSEL), 2016
Feynman Prize for Nanotechnology, 2012
Gerhard Ertl Young Investigator Award, 2010
Tiburtius Preis, 2006
Publications
The Role of Methyl Groups in the Early Stage of Thermal Polymerization of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons Revealed by Molecular Imaging
- Pengcheng Chen
- Shadi Fatayer
- et al.
- 2021
- Energy and Fuels
On-surface reactions and single-molecule charge transitions controlled by atom manipulation
- Shadi Fatayer
- Katharina Kaiser
- et al.
- 2020
- S3IC 2020
Intramolecular Coupling of Terminal Alkynes by Atom Manipulation
- Florian Albrecht
- Dulce Rey
- et al.
- 2020
- Angewandte Chemie - International Edition
Synthesis of Cyclo[18]carbon via Debromination of C18Br6
- Lorel M. Scriven
- Katharina Kaiser
- et al.
- 2020
- JACS
Molecular structure elucidation with charge-state control
- Shadi Fatayer
- Florian Albrecht
- et al.
- 2020
- virtualSPM 2020
Overview of asphaltene nanostructures and thermodynamic applications
- Bruno Schuler
- Yunlong Zhang
- et al.
- 2020
- Energy and Fuels
30 years of moving individual atoms
- Christopher Lutz
- Leo Gross
- 2020
- Europhysics News
An sp-hybridized molecular carbon allotrope, cyclo[18]carbon
- Katharina Kaiser
- Lorel M. Scriven
- et al.
- 2019
- Science
Revisiting Kekulene: Synthesis and Single-Molecule Imaging
- Iago Pozo
- Zsolt Majzik
- et al.
- 2019
- JACS
Patents
Projects
Atom and Molecule Manipulation
Low-temperature scanning tunneling microscopy and atomic force microscopy.
Blog posts
Resolving the odd-number cyclo[13]carbon
Technical noteLeo Gross and Florian AlbrechtResolving the first anti-aromatic carbon allotrope
Technical noteLeo GrossIBM scientist Leo Gross named an APS Fellow for his groundbreaking research
NewsScanning probe microscopy technique could open the door to molecular machines
ResearchLeo Gross, Florian Albrecht, and Ivano Tavernelli- See more blog posts
