Prof. Ernst Rank and the TUM-IAS team invite the scientists of TUM and their guests for coffee each Wednesday! Just come over to the TUM-IAS after lunch between 1:00 - 2:00 p.m. and have a coffee with us, meet other scientists and listen from time to time to a short talk (10-15 mins) on a recent major TUM publication or issue – aimed specifically at a non-expert audience.
On November 28, 2018, Dr. Yiqi Zhang (Physics of Surfaces and Interfaces) will talk about the discovery of a reaction path that produces exotic layers with semiregular structures. These kinds of materials are interesting because they frequently possess extraordinary properties. In the process, simple organic molecules are converted to larger units which form the complex, semiregular patterns. In the language of geometry this pattern is referred to as a semiregular 3.4.6.4 tessellation (TUM press release).
Relevant Publication:
Yi-Qi Zhang, Mateusz Paszkiewicz, Ping Du, Liding Zhang, Tao Lin, Zhi Chen, Svetlana Klyatskaya, Mario Ruben, Ari P. Seitsonen, Johannes V. Barth, and Florian Klappenberger: “Complex supramolecular interfacial tessellation through convergent multistep reaction of a dissymmetric simple organic precursor”, Nature Chemistry 2017. DOI: 10.1038/nchem.2924
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