Wilhelm H. Auwärter

Short CV

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.
  • Corso, M.: Boron Nitride Nanomesh. Science 303 (5655), 2004, 217-220.
  • Auwärter, W.; Kreutz, T.J.; Greber, T.; Osterwalder, J.: XPD and STM investigation of hexagonal boron nitride on Ni(111). Surface Science 429 (1-3), 1999, 229-236.

Publications as TUM-IAS-Fellow

2016

  • 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 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
  • 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 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
  • 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 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )

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 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
  • 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 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
  • 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 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )

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 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
  • 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 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
  • 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 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
  • 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 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
  • 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 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
  • 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 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
  • 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 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
  • 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 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
  • 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 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )

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 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )

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 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
  • 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 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
  • 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 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )

2010

  • Heim, Daniel; Seufert, Knud; Auwärter, Willi; Aurisicchio, Claudia; Fabbro, Chiara; Bonifazi, Davide; Barth, Johannes V.: Surface-Assisted Assembly of Discrete Porphyrin-Based Cyclic Supramolecules. Nano Letters 10 (1), 2010, 122-128 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
  • Marschall, Matthias; Reichert, Joachim; Weber-Bargioni, Alexander; Seufert, Knud; Auwärter, Willi; Klyatskaya, Svetlana; Zoppellaro, Giorgio; Ruben, Mario; Barth, Johannes V.: Random two-dimensional string networks based on divergent coordination assembly. Nature Chemistry 2 (2), 2010, 131-137 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )