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June 09, 2025

Paper accepted in Nano Letters!

Jazmine's paper, in collaboration with María Camarasa-Gómez and Daniel Hernangómez-Pérez, identifies conditions under which Lewis-acid mediated S-C(sp3) bond-breaking reactions at gold surfaces are maximized, and provides additional evidence for proposed mechanisms based on the in situ generation and loss of stable carbocations.

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June 02, 2025

Welcome Saraswoti!

Saraswoti Subedi joins the group as our 2025 USC-Cerritos College Summer Research Intern. Over the next 8 weeks she will work to improve our recently reported methods for integrating robust template-stripped substrates with custom-built flow cells.

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May 19, 2025

Welcome Lizette and Yuanhao!

Sophomore undergraduate student Lizette Miranda and freshman undergraduate student Yuanhao Chen join the group. Their  research projects focus on the synthesis and study of new molecular compounds for single-molecule junctions.

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May 14, 2025

Paper accepted in Nano Letters!

Tom's paper, a collaborative study with the Vázquez group, explores the properties of thioether-linked single-molecule junctions formed using all three coinage metal electrodes (copper, silver, gold), experiments made possible using our glovebox-based scanning tunneling microscope setup (link).

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​May 13, 2025

Cynthia passes her Qualifying Exam

Congratulation to the group's latest Ph.D. Candidate!

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May 13, 2025

Paper accepted in ACS Nanosci. Au!

Cynthia's paper outlines a new approach to utilize template-stripped substrates with previously incompatible organic media, exploiting solvent-impermeable metal thin films and a custom-built (electrochemical) flow cell! Read more here.

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May 02, 2025

Congratulations Mukund!

Mukund wins second-place prize for the inorganic section 2025 screening symposium.  Well done!​​​​​​​

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​April 24, 2025

The group celebrates at USC Chemistry's Annual Stauffer Symposium

Jazmine picks up a research poster prize, congratulations!​

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April 21, 2025

Paper accepted in ACS Phys. Chem. Au!

Clark and Mukund's paper, in collaboration with María Camarasa-Gómez and Daniel Hernangómez-Pérez, explores the use of isochroman, a high-boiling point ethereal solvent, to form and evaluate the properties of carboxylic acid-linked single-molecule junctions. Read more here.

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April 02, 2025

Paper accepted in Small!

Tom and Sawyer's paper demonstrates that single-molecule junctions with different, air-reactive metal electrodes (gold, silver, copper, zinc, nickel, cobalt, and platinum) can be formed under ambient pressure using a scanning tunneling microscope-based glovebox setup housed inside of an inert atmosphere glovebox (link).

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March 06, 2025

Paper accepted in Inorg. Chem!

Clarissa's work demonstrates the utility of halogen/magnesium exchange reactions for the preparation of osmium(IV) tetraaryl complexes with pre-functionalized ligands (link).

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January 08, 2025

Paper accepted in Inorg. Chem!

Luana's paper explores the synthesis and distinct (spectro)electrochemical properties of an osmium(IV) tetra(ferrocenyl)aryl complex, which can be reversibly oxidized up to the 5+ cation (link).