Publications by Samuel Thomas Stolz

Electronic Decoupling and Hole-Doping of Graphene Nanoribbons on Metal Substrates by Chloride Intercalation

Atomically precise graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) have a wide range of electronic properties that depend sensitively on their chemical structure. Several types of GNRs have been synthesized on metal surfaces through selective surface-catalyzed reactions. The ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2024

Asymmetric azide-alkyne Huisgen cycloaddition on chiral metal surfaces

Harald Brune, Roland Widmer, Roland Hany, Michael Bauer, Samuel Thomas Stolz

Achieving fundamental understanding of enantioselective heterogeneous synthesis is marred by the permanent presence of multitudinous arrangements of catalytically active sites in real catalysts. In this study, we address this issue by using structurally co ...

NATURE RESEARCH2021

Asymmetric Elimination Reaction on Chiral Metal Surfaces

Harald Brune, Roland Widmer, Samuel Thomas Stolz, Martina Danese, Daniele Passerone

The production of enantiopure materials and molecules is of uttermost relevance in research and industry in numerous contexts, ranging from nonlinear optics to asymmetric synthesis. In the context of the latter, dehalogenation, which is an essential reacti ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2021

On-surface synthesis of organocopper metallacycles through activation of inner diacetylene moieties

Samuel Thomas Stolz

The design of organometallic complexes is at the heart of modern organic chemistry and catalysis. Recently, on-surface synthesis has emerged as a disruptive paradigm to design previously precluded compounds and nanomaterials. Despite these advances, the fi ...

2021

Near-Enantiopure Trimerization of 9-Ethynylphenanthrene on a Chiral Metal Surface

Harald Brune, Jan Prinz, Roland Widmer, Aliaksandr Yakutovich, Samuel Thomas Stolz

Enantioselectivity in heterogeneous catalysis strongly depends on the chirality transfer between catalyst surface and all reactants, intermediates, and the product along the reaction pathway. Herein we report the first enantioselective on-surface synthesis ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2020

Molecular motor crossing the frontier of classical to quantum tunneling motion

Harald Brune, Jan Prinz, Roland Widmer, Samuel Thomas Stolz

The reliability by which molecular motor proteins convert undirected energy input into directed motion or transport has inspired the design of innumerable artificial molecular motors. We have realized and investigated an artificial molecular motor applying ...

National Academy of Sciences2020

Exploiting the chirality of intermetallic PdGa

Samuel Thomas Stolz

The intermetallic compound PdGa has recently attracted considerable interest for combining high catalytic activity with high reaction selectivity in symmetric heterogeneous catalysis, in particular semi-hydrogenation of acetylene and methanol steam reformi ...

EPFL2020

Weyl fermions, Fermi arcs, and minority-spin carriers in ferromagnetic CoS2

Samuel Thomas Stolz, Thorsten Schmitt, Timur Kim, Vladimir N. Strocov

Magnetic Weyl semimetals are a newly discovered class of topological materials that may serve as a platform for exotic phenomena, such as axion insulators or the quantum anomalous Hall effect. Here, we use angle-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy and ab i ...

2020

Handedness-dependent quasiparticle interference in the two enantiomers of the topological chiral semimetal PdGa

Roland Widmer, Samuel Thomas Stolz, Yi-Chiang Sun, Timur Kim

It has recently been proposed that combining chirality with topological band theory results in a totally new class of fermions. Understanding how these unconventional quasiparticles propagate and interact remains largely unexplored so far. Here, we use sca ...

Nature Research2020