Roman Fasel

@compthesml Thanks for the great collaboration! Your theory and simulations were crucial in all steps!

From our side, the project required more than 1700 calculations and 1.1 million of CPU-hours. The last three articles have been published in #OpenAccess

Just published! Hot paper in @angew_chem in collaboration with @Empa_CH @TTorresGroup @SHUSurfaceLab @UAM_Madrid @IAdChem @DIPCehu @CFMdonostia Opening thread 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/an…

Today we are celebrating our annual CarboQuant Day with lots of interesting presenations and a keynote given by Arzhang Ardavan from the University of Oxford. 🚀Congrats to Yujeong Bae, Stepan Kovarik and Nils Krane for winning the 2025 CarboQuant Innovator Awards!🚀 @Empa_CH

🔬 New in ACS Nano: Triangulene on TbAu₂ shows a strong, spatially modulated interaction with ferromagnetic magnetization (~20 mV Kondo splitting). ➡️ TbAu₂ = new platform for π-magnetic nanographenes. doi.org/10.1021/acsnan… @Empa_CH @acsnano

Empa researchers develop hybrid system of magnetically and electronically coupled "string lights" ➡️ Wide range of applications in molecular #electronics, from chemical #sensing to #quantumtechnologies. empa.ch/web/s604/graph… @NatureChemistry

@jionglu_NUS @NatureChem @NanotechSurfLab Thanks for the insightful News&Views article!

Merging d- and π-electron magnetism🚀🚀 today News/views @NatureChem rdcu.be/eBHxp Congrats to the team @NanotechSurfLab !

Our latest in Nature Chemistry💡: porphyrins wired to graphene nanoribbons. A hybrid system with tunable electronic, magnetic & optical properties — potential for sensors & quantum devices. 📖rdcu.be/eBHyj

Save the dates for the upcoming On-Surface Synthesis International Workshop : June 7-12, 2026 in Ribadesella, Spain. Excited to be working with the scientific committee to get a most attractive pool of invited speakers for #OSS26! Stay tuned under oss26.dipc.org

We are hiring! 📣 Exciting job offer for a Postdoc in the field of Atomic-Scale Quantum Magnetism! Apply here: apply.refline.ch/673276/2068/pu…

@NatxoPas @EdensLeonard An outstanding thesis and defense! Congratulations again Leo!

Yesterday Dr. Leonard Edens succesfully defended his PhD thesis entitled "Spin and charge control of single molecules for atomic scale coherence". Congratulations Leo @EdensLeonard !

@mishshan @mog_kar @IBMResearch @Empa_CH @chalmersuniv All the best for your next steps!

📖 Nature Materials: rdcu.be/edxe0 Collaboration between @Empa_CH @NanotechSurfLab , Switzerland, @International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory, Braga, Portugal, and Center for Advancing Electronics Dresden, Germany #QuantumMaterials #Nanoscience #HeisenbergChains

"Quantum Lego": We engineered spin-1/2 Heisenberg chains by linking Olympicene nanographenes, unveiling their length-dependent spin excitations. With STM/IETS, we confirm gapless behavior in the thermodynamic limit & visualize spinon standing waves.

New Empa lab, CarboQuant, set to harness #quantum effects from #carbon, opening the way for sustainable quantum technologies. Project supported by @WSS_Stiftung 🔗empa.ch/web/s604/caboq… @NanotechSurfLab

Empa researcher Eve Ammerman wants to bring quantum technologies one step closer to application by combining quantum effects with light. Supported by the Empa Young Scientist Fellowship. 🚀 🔗 empa.ch/web/s604/young…

Die Empa-Forscherin Eve Ammerman will Quantentechnologien einen Schritt näher zur praktischen Anwendung bringen, indem sie Quanteneffekte mit Licht kombiniert. Sie wird vom Empa Young Scientist Fellowship unterstützt. 🚀 🔗 empa.ch/web/s604/young…

Empa has opened the CarboQuant Lab, a cutting-edge hub exploring quantum effects in carbon. Supported by the @WSS_Stiftung and the @snsf_ch , CarboQuant aims to create a materials platform for carbon-based quantum technologies. @Empa_CH #QuantumTechnologies #CarbonNanomaterials

@GottfriedGroup Nice!

In the CarboQuant project at @NanotechSurfLab researchers are using carbon nanostructures to study quantum physical phenomena. They’ve now achieved a breakthrough by precisely constructing and testing one of the most important theoretical quantum models. wernersiemens-stiftung.ch/en/news/detail…

Das Projekt CarboQuant am @NanotechSurfLab der @Empa_CH erforscht quantenphysikalische Phänomene mittels Kohlenstoff-Nanostrukturen. Nun gelang ihm ein Durchbruch: Es hat eines der wichtigsten theoretischen Quantenmodelle exakt nachgebaut und getestet. wernersiemens-stiftung.ch/detail/spin-ke…