Gerhard Ertl Lecture & Award

The Ertl Lecture Award was established in 2008 by the three Berlin universities (Humboldt University, Technical University and Free University) and the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society and is awarded once a year. It commemorates former FHI Director Gerhard Ertl's Nobel Prize in Chemistry, which he received in 2007. The prize honours outstanding personalities and researchers in the field of catalysis where Ertl carried out exceptional research for many decades. The prize, sponsored by BASF, includes a one-week research stay at the participating Berlin institutions and a keynote lecture. The winner is typically announced in Spring, the lecture takes place around the December 10th, the anniversary of Ertl's Nobel Prize reception.

Multilayer supramolecular architectures at device interfaces: Prospects for electron and phonon transport

• PC Department Online Seminar
• Date: Nov 22, 2021
• Time: 11:00 AM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Prof. Carlos-Andres Palma
• Institute of Physics Chinese Academy of Sciences & Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
• Host: Akitoshi Shiotari

Manufacturing atomically-precise functional nanoarchitectures with tailored physics at well-defined device interfaces is a frontier in bottom-up nanomaterial [1,2] and condensed matter design [3]. A long-standing challenge in the field is the integration of functional elements in proof-of-concept devices. One strategy to alleviate the cumbersome device integration of single-layered molecular systems, is to achieve increasing control over vertical supramolecular heterojunctions and multilayers, so as to transition from ‘on-surface’, to ‘out-of-surface’ surface science protocols. [more]