Qitang Fan

New paper in Nature Chemistry: We find that on-surface radical ring-opening polymerization of [6]CPP on Cu(111), produces near micrometer-long poly(para-phenylene) (PPP) chains — far beyond typical polymer lengths obtained by On-Surface Synthesis. 🔗 nature.com/articles/s4155… 1/4

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 seeking for a highly motivated postdoctoral researcher to join our @ERC_Research Synergy Grant MolDAM project at @ciqususc , to work on the synthesis of nanographenes and on-surface chemistry. Deadline for application: 29 Sept. Details: usc.es/ciqus/es/emple…

Our new @J_A_C_S paper: π-extended quintulene that traps a single Au atom and can be flipped with an STM tip: a step toward curved nanocarbons via on-surface synthesis. 🔗 pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja… 📰 chemistryviews.org/creating-and-m…

Our latest work in @NanoLetters about a porous graphene nanoribbon and how pores influence the electronic structure. The non-porous regions determine the electronic properties! Great collaboration with @QitangF, @JoseM_C_ and others. pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10…

Cyclocarbon C18 (doubly aromatic) is a freak, C16 (doubly anti-aromatic) a superfreak, C13 is the freakiest of them all: triplet ground state, more or less delocalized carbene center, and neither Baird's nor Hueckel's rule can be applied. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Our latest work in @NatureChemistry, a highly entangled polyradical nanographene! Congrats @ShaotangSong, Andrés, Adam, Guangwu! Great collaboration with research groups from @nanosurflab @jishan_wu, Libor Veis. 👇👇rdcu.be/dyZ1v

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Late night at the #NCAFM2023 in Singapore: Geeking out with @PyZahl #SpmImageTycoon + #GXSM

@PawlakRemy @NatureComms @ChaoLi007 @scienta_omicron @SNIunibas @snf_ch @UniBasel_en @unibas_phys @NanolinoBasel Super

@elonmusk @minliangtan interesting yilong ma

@minliangtan I’m open to the idea

I think Twitter should buy SVB and become a digital bank.

Postdoc position: Join us at @Uni_MR for new ERC Synergy Grant project TACY. On-surface synthesis, single-molecule manipulation, and low-T scanning probe methods, including LT-TERS. @ERC_Research #ChemPostdoc #PhysPostdoc #ChemTwitter. Details: bit.ly/3Z4RWkn. Please RT

@elonmusk crazy Elon

Starship takes beings of Earth to Mars

@Brunodltorre this is a beautiful spot, i visited there once😀

@GottfriedGroup @michaelmastale4 @UniHeidelberg @uni_tue @ERC_Research Congratulations

Very happy about ERC Synergy Grant #ERCSyG with the great colleagues Michael Mastalerz @michaelmastale4 @UniHeidelberg and Holger Bettinger @uni_tue for the project "Tackling the Cyclacene Challenge". Many thanks to all who contributed in science and administration! @ERC_Research

Happy to see that our work is finally publised in Communications Materials! nature.com/articles/s4324…

New Publication by @SFB1083: J. Martinez-Castro, R. Bolat, Q. Fan et al. Disentangling the electronic structure of an adsorbed graphene nanoring by scanning tunneling microscopy Commun. Mater. 3 (2022) 57 DOI:10.1038/s43246-022-00275-x

Read about how molecular soccer balls can be connected to make a 2D material in this N&V by @GottfriedGroup go.nature.com/3N8F6dP

Amazing!!!

CCS Chemistry welcomes Prof. Dr. Michael Gottfried as an Associate Editor bit.ly/3x1xt2x #chemistry #science #scicomm #chemtwitter #openaccess