Allie Obermeyer

Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering

Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic

University Professor; Mikati Foundation Professor Of Biomedical Engineering And Medical Sciences; Professor Of Dental Medicine

Alexander Urban

Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering

Alan West

Samuel Ruben-Peter G. Viele Professor of Electrochemistry; Professor of Earth and Environmental Engineering

ABOUT THE STUDY

JOURNAL: Nature

TITLE: “Indefinite and Bidirectional Near Infrared Nanocrystal Photoswitching”

AUTHORS: Changhwan Lee (1), Emma Z. Xu (1), Kevin W. C. Kwock (2), Ayelet Teitelboim (3), Yawei Liu (3,4), Hye Sun Park (5), Benedikt Ursprung (1), Mark E. Ziffer (6), Yuzuka Karube (7), Natalie Fardian-Melamed (1), Cassio C. S. Pedroso (3), Jongwoo Kim8, Stefanie D. Pritzl (9,10), Sang Hwan Nam (8), Theobald Lohmueller (9), Jonathan S. Owen (7), Peter Ercius (3), Yung Doug Suh (11,8,12,13,*), Bruce E Cohen (3,14,*), Emory M Chan (3,*), P. James Schuck (1,*)

  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States
  2. Department of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States
  3. The Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA.
  4. State Key Laboratory of Rare Earth Resource Utilization, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, China
  5. Research Center for Bioconvergence Analysis, Korea Basic Science Institute (KBSI), Cheongju, South Korea
  6. Department of Physics, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States
  7. Department of Chemistry, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States
  8. Laboratory for Advanced Molecular Probing (LAMP), Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology (KRICT), Daejeon, South Korea
  9. Chair for Photonics and Optoelectronics, Nano-Institute Munich, Ludwig-Maximilians Universitat Munchen, Germany
  10. Department of Physics and Debye Institute for Nanomaterials Science, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
  11. Department of Chemistry, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Ulsan, South Korea
  12. School of Energy and Chemical Engineering, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Ulsan, South Korea
  13. Center for Multidimensional Carbon Materials(CMCM), Institute for Basic Science(IBS), Ulsan, South Korea
  14. Division of Molecular Biophysics and Integrated Bioimaging, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA

FUNDING: The study was supported by the Global Research Laboratory (GRL) Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Science and ICT (number 2016911815), and KRICT (KK2261-12, SKO1930-20); the Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, of the US Department of Energy under contract number DE-AC02-05CH11231; the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) Enhanced Night Vision in Eyeglass Form (ENVision) program (number HR00112220006); the National Science Foundation under Grant No. DMR-2019444; the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program; the DOE NNSA Laboratory Residency Graduate Fellowship program (No. DE-NA0003960); Programmable Quantum Materials, an Energy Frontier Research Center funded by the US Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences (BES), under award DE-SC0019443IBS-R019-D1; 2022 UNIST Research Fund (1.220108.01); seed funding support from Columbia University's Research Initiatives in Science & Engineering competition; the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No 893439; the Fulbright Scholarship Program; the Zuckerman-CHE STEM Leadership Program; and the ISEF Foundation;  the National Science Foundation under Grant No. CHE-2203510. S.D.P; the German Research Foundation (DFG) through the Collaborative Research Center 1032, Project no. 201269156, A8).

The authors declare no financial or other conflicts of interest.
 

ABOUT THE STUDY

JOURNAL: Nature Communications

TITLE: “Photooxidation Driven Formation of Fe-Au Linked Ferrocene-Based Single-Molecule Junctions”

AUTHORS: Woojung Lee (1), Liang Li (1), Maria Camarasa-Gomez (2), Daniel Hernangomez-Perez (2) , Xavier Roy (1), Ferdinand Evers (2*) Michael S. Inkpen (3*), Latha Venkataraman (1,4*)

  1. Department of Chemistry, Columbia University
  2. Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Regensburg, Germany
  3. Department of Chemistry, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
  4. Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Columbia Engineering

FUNDING: This work was supported in part by the National Science Foundation MRSEC grant on Precision-Assembled Quantum Materials (DMR-2011738) and the National Science Foundation under grant DMR-2241180. M.S.I. was supported by a Marie Sklodowska Curie Global Fellowship (MOLCLICK: 657247) within the Horizon 2020 Programme and University of Southern California (USC) startup funds. We thank the NSF (DBI-0821671, CHE-0840366, CHE-1048807) and the NIH (S10 RR25432) for USC-based analytical instrumentation. M.C.-G., D.H.-P., and F.E. acknowledge financial support from the German Research Foundation (DFG) through Research Training Group (GRK) 1570 and Collaborative Research Center (SFB) 1277 - Project ID 314695032 (subprojects A03, B01). We thank Brandon Fowler and Nils Rotthowe for help with Mass-Spectroscopy, Giacomo Lovat for help with STM-BJ data acquisition, and Rachel Austin for discussions.

COI: The authors declare no competing financial or non-financial interests.

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