Publications by Fernando Pablo Cometto

Rational Design of 2D Supramolecular Networks Switchable by External Electric Fields

Magalí Alejandra Lingenfelder, Fernando Pablo Cometto

The reversible formation of hydrogen bonds is a ubiquitous mechanism for controlling molecular assembly in biological systems. However, achieving predictable reversibility in artificial two-dimensional (2D) materials remains a significant challenge. Here, ...

Amer Chemical Soc2024

Emergence of Potential-Controlled Cu-Nanocuboids and Graphene-Covered Cu-Nanocuboids under Operando CO2 Electroreduction

Magalí Alejandra Lingenfelder, Fernando Pablo Cometto, Karla Banjac, Thanh Hai Phan

The electroreduction of CO2 (CO2RR) is a promising strategy toward sustainable fuels. Cu is the only Earth-abundant and pure metal capable of catalyzing CO2-to-hydrocarbons conversion with significant Faradaic efficiencies; yet, its dynamic structure under ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2021

Structural Order of the Molecular Adlayer Impacts the Stability of Nanoparticle-on-Mirror Plasmonic Cavities

Magalí Alejandra Lingenfelder, Christophe Marcel Georges Galland, Fernando Pablo Cometto, Karla Banjac, Aqeel Ahmed, Sachin Suresh Verlekar

Immense field enhancement and nanoscale confinement of light are possible within nanoparticle-on-mirror (NPoM) plasmonic resonators, which enable novel optically activated physical and chemical phenomena and render these nanocavities greatly sensitive to m ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2021

Reactivity of Bioinspired Magnesium-Organic Networks under CO2 and O-2 Exposure

Klaus Kern, Magalí Alejandra Lingenfelder, Bart Willem Stel, Fernando Pablo Cometto, Daniel Eduardo Hurtado Salinas

Photosynthesis is the model system for energy conversion. It uses CO2 as a starting reactant to convert solar energy into chemical energy, i.e., organic molecules or biomass. The first and rate-determining step of this cycle is the immobilization and activ ...

2019

2-D assembly of supramolecular nanoarchitectures on Mg(0001)

Klaus Kern, Magalí Alejandra Lingenfelder, Bart Willem Stel, Fernando Pablo Cometto, Daniel Eduardo Hurtado Salinas

In this work, a Mg(0001) single crystal is used as a novel template to grow 2D supramolecular nano-architectures. By using scanning tunnelling microscopy (STM) and high-resolution X-ray photoemission spectroscopy (HR-XPS), the formation of either a homo-mo ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2019

Dynamically resolved self-assembly of S-layer proteins on solid surfaces

Magalí Alejandra Lingenfelder, Bart Willem Stel, Fernando Pablo Cometto

By using high-speed and high-resolution Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM), it was possible to resolve within a single experiment the kinetic pathway in S-layer self-assembly at the solid-liquid interface, obtaining a model that accounts for the nucleation, gro ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2018

The STM bias voltage-dependent polymorphism of a binary supramolecular network

Klaus Kern, Magalí Alejandra Lingenfelder, Bart Willem Stel, Fernando Pablo Cometto, Kilian Frank

A Scanning Tunneling Microscope (STM) is used to induce a reversible transition between different polymorphs in a binary supramolecular network at the liquid/solid interface. The transition is driven externally by switching the polarity of the sample by po ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2017

Local Conformational Switching of Supramolecular Networks at the Solid/Liquid Interface

Klaus Kern, Magalí Alejandra Lingenfelder, Fernando Pablo Cometto

We use the electric field in a scanning tunneling microscope to manipulate the transition between open and close packed 2D supramolecular networks of neutral molecules in nonpolar media. We found that while the magnitude of the applied field is not decisiv ...

Amer Chemical Soc2015

Reversible Local and Global Switching in Multicomponent Supramolecular Networks: Controlled Guest Release and Capture at the Solution/Solid Interface

Magalí Alejandra Lingenfelder, Fernando Pablo Cometto

Dynamically switchable supramolecular systems offer exciting possibilities in building smart surfaces, the structure and thus the function of which can be controlled by using external stimuli. Here we demonstrate an elegant approach where the guest binding ...

Amer Chemical Soc2015