Wilhelm (Willi) Auwärter studied Physics at the University of Zurich (1993-1999). After a stay at the Brookhaven National Lab and the Diploma he started his doctoral research in 1999 and received his PhD from the University of Zurich in 2003. Subsequently he worked as postdoctoral fellow at the University of British Columbia and at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. Today he is a research associate at the Technical University Munich.
Selected Awards
2004-2005, Fellowship for prospective researchers from the Swiss National Science foundation
Research Interests
Wilhelm Auwärter’s current research focuses on nanoscale science on surfaces. Combining scanning probe microscopy and spectroscopy with complementary non-local methods he addresses the geometric and electronic structure of functional molecular modules and their self-assembly into supramolecular architectures. He plans to implement complex materials like transition metal oxides, ultra-thin insulating films and half-metals as substrates for such low-dimensional organic molecular nanostructures in order to deliberately tune and engineer the functional properties of these systems.
Selected Publications
Eichberger, M.; Marschall, M.; Reichert, J.; Weber-Bargioni, A.; Auwärter, W.; Wang, R. L. C.; Kreuzer, H. J.; Pennec, Y.; Schiffrin, A.; Barth, J. V.: Dimerization Boosts One-Dimensional Mobility of Conformationally Adapted Porphyrins on a Hexagonal Surface Atomic Lattice. Nano Letters 8 (12), 2008, 4608-4613.
Auwarter, Willi; Schiffrin, Agustin; Bargioni, Alexander Weber; Pennec, Yan; Riemann, Andreas; Barth, Johannes V.: Molecular nanoscience and engineering on surfaces. IJNT 5 (9/10/11/12), 2008, 1171.
Auwärter, Willi; Klappenberger, Florian; Weber-Bargioni, Alexander; Schiffrin, Agustin; Strunskus, Thomas; Wöll, Christof; Pennec, Yan; Riemann, Andreas; Barth, Johannes V.: Conformational Adaptation and Selective Adatom Capturing of Tetrapyridyl-porphyrin Molecules on a Copper (111) Surface. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 129 (36), 2007, 11279-11285.
Auwärter, Willi; Weber-Bargioni, Alexander; Brink, Susan; Riemann, Andreas; Schiffrin, Agustin; Ruben, Mario; Barth, Johannes V.: Controlled Metalation of Self-Assembled Porphyrin Nanoarrays in Two Dimensions. ChemPhysChem 8 (2), 2007, 250-254.
Pennec, Y.; Auwärter, W.; Schiffrin, A.; Weber-Bargioni, A.; Riemann, A.; Barth, J. V.: Supramolecular gratings for tuneable confinement of electrons on metal surfaces. Nature Nanotech 2 (2), 2007, 99-103.
Auwärter, W.; Weber-Bargioni, A.; Riemann, A.; Schiffrin, A.; Gröning, O.; Fasel, R.; Barth, J. V.: Self-assembly and conformation of tetrapyridyl-porphyrin molecules on Ag(111). The Journal of Chemical Physics 124 (19), 2006, 194708.
Bischoff, Felix; He, Yuanqin; Seufert, Knud; Stassen, Daphné; Bonifazi, Davide; Barth, Johannes V.; Auwärter, Willi: Tailoring Large Pores of Porphyrin Networks on Ag(111) by Metal-Organic Coordination. Chemistry - A European Journal 22 (43), 2016, 15298-15306 mehr…BibTeX
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Garnica, Manuela; Schwarz, Martin; Ducke, Jacob; He, Yuanqin; Bischoff, Felix; Barth, Johannes V.; Auwärter, Willi; Stradi, Daniele: Comparative study of the interfaces of graphene and hexagonal boron nitride with silver. Physical Review B 94 (15), 2016 mehr…BibTeX
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He, Yuanqin; Garnica, Manuela; Bischoff, Felix; Ducke, Jacob; Bocquet, Marie-Laure; Batzill, Matthias; Auwärter, Willi; Barth, Johannes V.: Fusing tetrapyrroles to graphene edges by surface-assisted covalent coupling. Nature Chemistry 9 (1), 2016, 33-38 mehr…BibTeX
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2014
Urgel, José I.; Ecija, David; Auwärter, Willi; Barth, Johannes V.: Controlled Manipulation of Gadolinium-Coordinated Supramolecules by Low-Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscopy. Nano Letters 14 (3), 2014, 1369-1373 mehr…BibTeX
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Urgel, José I.; Ecija, David; Auwärter, Willi; Papageorgiou, Anthoula C.; Seitsonen, Ari P.; Vijayaraghavan, Saranyan; Joshi, Sushobhan; Fischer, Sybille; Reichert, Joachim; Barth, Johannes V.: Five-Vertex Lanthanide Coordination on Surfaces: A Route to Sophisticated Nanoarchitectures and Tessellations. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 118 (24), 2014, 12908-12915 mehr…BibTeX
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Wiengarten, Alissa; Seufert, Knud; Auwärter, Willi; Ecija, David; Diller, Katharina; Allegretti, Francesco; Bischoff, Felix; Fischer, Sybille; Duncan, David A.; Papageorgiou, Anthoula C.; Klappenberger, Florian; Acres, Robert G.; Ngo, Thien H.; Barth, Johannes V.: Surface-assisted Dehydrogenative Homocoupling of Porphine Molecules. Journal of the American Chemical Society 136 (26), 2014, 9346-9354 mehr…BibTeX
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2013
Burema, Shiri R.; Seufert, Knud; Auwärter, Willi; Barth, Johannes V.; Bocquet, Marie-Laure: Probing Nitrosyl Ligation of Surface-Confined Metalloporphyrins by Inelastic Electron Tunneling Spectroscopy. ACS Nano 7 (6), 2013, 5273-5281 mehr…BibTeX
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Diller, K.; Klappenberger, F.; Allegretti, F.; Papageorgiou, A. C.; Fischer, S.; Wiengarten, A.; Joshi, S.; Seufert, K.; Écija, D.; Auwärter, W.; Barth, J. V.: Investigating the molecule-substrate interaction of prototypic tetrapyrrole compounds: Adsorption and self-metalation of porphine on Cu(111). The Journal of Chemical Physics 138 (15), 2013, 154710 mehr…BibTeX
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Ecija, D.; Urgel, J. I.; Papageorgiou, A. C.; Joshi, S.; Auwarter, W.; Seitsonen, A. P.; Klyatskaya, S.; Ruben, M.; Fischer, S.; Vijayaraghavan, S.; Reichert, J.; Barth, J. V.: Five-vertex Archimedean surface tessellation by lanthanide-directed molecular self-assembly. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 110 (17), 2013, 6678-6681 mehr…BibTeX
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Ecija, D.; Urgel, J. I.; Papageorgiou, A. C.; Joshi, S.; Auwarter, W.; Seitsonen, A. P.; Klyatskaya, S.; Ruben, M.; Fischer, S.; Vijayaraghavan, S.; Reichert, J.; Barth, J. V.: Five-vertex Archimedean surface tessellation by lanthanide-directed molecular self-assembly. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 110 (17), 2013, 6678-6681 mehr…BibTeX
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Joshi, Sushobhan; Bischoff, Felix; Koitz, Ralph; Ecija, David; Seufert, Knud; Seitsonen, Ari Paavo; Hutter, Jürg; Diller, Katharina; Urgel, José. I.; Sachdev, Hermann; Barth, Johannes V.; Auwärter, Willi: Control of Molecular Organization and Energy Level Alignment by an Electronically Nanopatterned Boron Nitride Template. ACS Nano 8 (1), 2013, 430-442 mehr…BibTeX
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Papageorgiou, Anthoula C.; Fischer, Sybille; Oh, Seung Cheol; Saglam, Özge; Reichert, Joachim; Wiengarten, Alissa; Seufert, Knud; Vijayaraghavan, Saranyan; Ecija, David; Auwärter, Willi; Allegretti, Francesco; Acres, Robert G.; Prince, Kevin C.; Diller, Katharina; Klappenberger, Florian; Barth, Johannes V.: Self-Terminating Protocol for an Interfacial Complexation Reaction in Vacuo by Metal–Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition. ACS Nano 7 (5), 2013, 4520-4526 mehr…BibTeX
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Reichert, Joachim; Marschall, Matthias; Seufert, Knud; Ecija, David; Auwärter, Willi; Arras, Emmanuel; Klyatskaya, Svetlana; Ruben, Mario; Barth, Johannes V.: Competing Interactions in Surface Reticulation with a Prochiral Dicarbonitrile Linker. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 117 (24), 2013, 12858-12863 mehr…BibTeX
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Seufert, Knud; Auwärter, Willi; Garcı́a de Abajo, F. J.; Ecija, David; Vijayaraghavan, Saranyan; Joshi, Sushobhan; Barth, Johannes V.: Controlled Interaction of Surface Quantum-Well Electronic States. Nano Letters 13 (12), 2013, 6130-6135 mehr…BibTeX
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Vijayaraghavan, Saranyan; Ecija, David; Auwärter, Willi; Joshi, Sushobhan; Seufert, Knud; Drach, Mateusz; Nieckarz, Damian; Szabelski, Pawel; Aurisicchio, Claudia; Bonifazi, Davide; Barth, Johannes V.: Supramolecular Assembly of Interfacial Nanoporous Networks with Simultaneous Expression of Metal-Organic and Organic-Bonding Motifs. Chemistry - A European Journal 19 (42), 2013, 14143-14150 mehr…BibTeX
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2012
Joshi, Sushobhan; Ecija, David; Koitz, Ralph; Iannuzzi, Marcella; Seitsonen, Ari P.; Hutter, Jürg; Sachdev, Hermann; Vijayaraghavan, Saranyan; Bischoff, Felix; Seufert, Knud; Barth, Johannes V.; Auwärter, Willi: Boron Nitride on Cu(111): An Electronically Corrugated Monolayer. Nano Letters 12 (11), 2012, 5821-5828 mehr…BibTeX
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2011
Auwärter, Willi; Seufert, Knud; Bischoff, Felix; Ecija, David; Vijayaraghavan, Saranyan; Joshi, Sushobhan; Klappenberger, Florian; Samudrala, Niveditha; Barth, Johannes V.: A surface-anchored molecular four-level conductance switch based on single proton transfer. Nature Nanotech 7 (1), 2011, 41-46 mehr…BibTeX
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Seufert, Knud; Bocquet, Marie-Laure; Auwärter, Willi; Weber-Bargioni, Alexander; Reichert, Joachim; Lorente, Nicolás; Barth, Johannes V.: Cis-dicarbonyl binding at cobalt and iron porphyrins with saddle-shape conformation. Nature Chemistry 3 (2), 2011, 114-119 mehr…BibTeX
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Écija, David; Auwärter, Willi; Vijayaraghavan, Saranyan; Seufert, Knud; Bischoff, Felix; Tashiro, Kentaro; Barth, Johannes V.: Assembly and Manipulation of Rotatable Cerium Porphyrinato Sandwich Complexes on a Surface. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 50 (17), 2011, 3872-3877 mehr…BibTeX
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