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• Scanning probe microscopy (SPM) under ambient conditions and in liquids
• Nanochemistry on surfaces
• Modification of surfaces with molecules via self-assembly: surface engineering, surface nanopatterning, surface chirality, surface reactivity
• On-surface synthesis of 2D polymers
• Functionalization and modification of 2D materials, including graphene
• Biosystems on surfaces
• Prof. Steven De Feyter • 10 postdoctoral researchers • 10 PhD students
Nanochemistry and self-assembly as key competences to modify and nanopattern
surfaces, with a focus on 2D crystal engineering, templating, dynamics and
reactivity. These studies bring insight in the fundamental aspects of molecular
organisation on surfaces, as well as the formation, modification and use of these
nanostructured functional surfaces (e.g. 2D materials). The liquid-solid interface
is the preferred environment. Also biomolecular systems (DNA, proteins, their
complexes, etc.) are investigated, with a focus on those that are involved in
disease related processes. Scanning probe microscopy and spectroscopy
techniques such as STM and AFM are particularly useful to probe the structural,
dynamic, and electronic properties of these surface-confined molecular systems.
• Scanning probe microscopes (SPM)
• Scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) under environmental control
• Atomic force microscopy (AFM) under environmental control
• Combined SPM and optical microscopes
• SPM-based nanolithography
Dept. of Chemistry, Division of Molecular Imaging
and Photonics, Laboratory of Photochemistry and
Spectroscopy
Nanochemistry & SPM Group
Leuven Chem&Tech
Celestijnenlaan 200F
3001 Leuven
• H2020-FETOPEN-2014-2015-RIA:
“Redesigning 2D Materials for the Formulation of
Semiconducting Inks (2D-INK)”
• FLAG-ERA JTC 2015:
“2D functional MX2/graphene hetero-structures (2D-
FUN)”
• KULeuven C1:
“Physicochemical properties and chemical reactivity of 0D,
2D and 3D materials at the nanometer and micrometer-
scale”
• ERC Advanced Grant 340324 - NANOGRAPH@LSI:
"Nanostructuring graphene and graphitic substrates for
controlled and reproducible functionalisation"
Division of Molecuar Imaging and Photonics: Nanochemistry & SPM group