On-surface atomic-scale engineering of topological organic nanostructures

该项目的目标是合成和表征低维有机纳米结构，其中原子尺度的形态和电子结构产生了非平凡的拓扑电子态。具有拓扑电子态的有机材料的成功设计将为无耗散电子学、自旋电子学和量子信息处理等新技术的发展铺平道路，并具有有机化合物所能提供的灵活性和效率。该项目计划利用金属原子和有机分子作为应用于表面的超分子化学方法的构建单元，实现单原子水平的结构和电子控制。

The goal of this project is to synthesise and characterise low-dimensional organic nanostructures, in which the atomic-scale morphology and electronic structure give rise to nontrivial topological electronic states. Successful design of organic materials with topological electronic states would pave the way for the development of new technologies in dissipation-less electronics, spintronics and quantum information processing, with the flexibility and efficiency that organic compounds can offer. The project plans to exploit metal atoms and organic molecules as building units in approaches of supramolecular chemistry applied on surfaces, to achieve structural and electronic control at the single atom level.