Electronic transport properties of single-molecule junctions have been widely measured by
several techniques, including mechanically controllable break junctions, electromigration …

Understanding how molecules interact to form large-scale hierarchical structures on
surfaces holds promise for building designer nanoscale constructs with defined chemical …

During the last decade, interest on the growth and self-assembly of organic molecular
species on solid surfaces spread over the scientific community, largely motivated by the …

In recent years inelastic spin-flip spectroscopy using a low-temperature scanning tunneling
microscope has been a very successful tool for studying not only individual spins but also …

The Kondo effect arises due to the interaction between a localized spin and the electrons of
a surrounding host. Studies of individual magnetic impurities by scanning tunneling …

Van der Waals forces are among the weakest, yet most decisive interactions governing
condensation and aggregation processes and the phase behaviour of atomic and molecular …

Structural flexibility of molecule-based systems is key to realizing the novel functionalities.
Tuning the structure in the atomic scale enables us to manipulate the quantum state in the …

Accurate characterization of correlated electronic states, as well as their evolution under
external fields or in dissipative environment, is essentially important for understanding the …

Realization of long-range magnetic order in surface-supported two-dimensional systems
has been challenging, mainly due to the competition between fundamental magnetic …

In the scanning tunnelling microscope, the many-body Kondo effect leads to a zero-bias
feature of the differential conductance spectra of magnetic adsorbates on surfaces. The …