Highlights in 2023

01/2023	Paper featured as a font cover page of JACS
	Our paper on the development of a new method to prepare high-quality films of the two-dimensional conjugated coordination polymer Cu-BHT is highlighted with the front cover page of Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS). We developed a solvent-free chemical vapor deposition method to prepare high-quality films of the two-dimensional conjugated coordination polymer Cu-BHT (BHT = benzenehexanothiolate). The restricted metal ion mobility during the vapor–solid reaction enables high-resolution patterning via both bottom-up lithography, including the fabrication of micron-sized Hall bar and electrode patterns to accurately evaluate the conductivity and mobility values of the Cu-BHT films. Crystalline coordination polymers with high electrical conductivities and charge carrier mobilities might open new opportunities for electronic devices. This work is a result of fruitful cooperation between the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf e.V., Dresden University of Technology, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY. V. Rubio-Giménez, G. Arnauts, M. Wang, E. S. Oliveros Mata, X. Huang, T. Lan, M. L. Tietze, D. E. Kravchenko, J. Smets, N. Wauteraerts, A. Khadiev, D. V. Novikov, D. Makarov, R. Dong, and R. Ameloot Chemical Vapor Deposition and High-Resolution Patterning of a Highly Conductive Two-Dimensional Coordination Polymer Film Journal of the American Chemical Society 145, 152 (2023). URL

01/2023

Paper featured as a font cover page of JACS

Our paper on the development of a new method to prepare high-quality films of the two-dimensional conjugated coordination polymer Cu-BHT is highlighted with the front cover page of Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS).

We developed a solvent-free chemical vapor deposition method to prepare high-quality films of the two-dimensional conjugated coordination polymer Cu-BHT (BHT = benzenehexanothiolate). The restricted metal ion mobility during the vapor–solid reaction enables high-resolution patterning via both bottom-up lithography, including the fabrication of micron-sized Hall bar and electrode patterns to accurately evaluate the conductivity and mobility values of the Cu-BHT films. Crystalline coordination polymers with high electrical conductivities and charge carrier mobilities might open new opportunities for electronic devices.

This work is a result of fruitful cooperation between the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf e.V., Dresden University of Technology, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY.

V. Rubio-Giménez, G. Arnauts, M. Wang, E. S. Oliveros Mata, X. Huang, T. Lan, M. L. Tietze, D. E. Kravchenko, J. Smets, N. Wauteraerts, A. Khadiev, D. V. Novikov, D. Makarov, R. Dong, and R. Ameloot
Chemical Vapor Deposition and High-Resolution Patterning of a Highly Conductive Two-Dimensional Coordination Polymer Film
Journal of the American Chemical Society 145, 152 (2023). URL