PUBLICATIONS


2025
Cyclodehydrogenation of molecular nanographene precursors catalyzed by atomic hydrogen
Rafal Zuzak, Pawel Dabczynski, Jesús Castro-Esteban, José Ignacio Martínez, Mads Engelund, Dolores Pérez, Diego Pena, Szymon Godlewskii
Nature Communications (2025)

2024
On-Surface Synthesis and Determination of the Open-Shell Singlet Ground State of Tridecacene
Rafal Zuzak, Manish Kumar, Otilia Stoica, Diego Soler-Polo, Jiri Brabec, Katarzyna Pernal, Libor Veis, Remi Blieck, Antonio M Echavarren, Pavel Jelinek, Szymon Godlewski
Angewandte Chemie (2024)

On surface synthesis of an eleven-ring sulfur-doped nonacene
Irena Padniuk, Otilia Stoica, Rafal Zuzak, Remi Blieck, Mariusz Krawiec, Szymon Godlewski, Antonio M Echavarren
Chemical Communications (2024)

2023
Sequential On-Surface Cyclodehydrogenation in a Nonplanar Nanographene
Rafal Zuzak, Sabela Quiroga, Mads Engelund, Dolores Pérez, Diego Pena, Szymon Godlewski, Manuel Melle-Franco
J. Phys. Chem. Lett. (2023)

On-Surface Synthesis of Nanographenes and Graphene Nanoribbons on Titanium Dioxide
Rafal Zuzak, Jesus Castro-Esteban, Mads Engelund, Dolores Pérez, Diego Pena, and Szymon Godlewski
ACS Nano (2023)

2022
On-surface synthesis of a phenylene analogue of nonacene
Irena Izydorczyk, Otilia Stoica, Mariusz Krawiec, Rémi Blieck, Rafal Zuzak, Marcin Stêpieñ, Antonio M. Echavarren, Szymon Godlewski
Chemical Communications (2022)

2021
Microscopic Visualization of Porous Nanographenes Synthesized through a Combination of Solution and On-Surface Chemistry
Rafal Zuzak, Iago Pozo, Mads Engelund, Manuel Vilas-Varela, José M. Alonso, Enrique Guitián, Dolores Pérez, Diego Pena, Szymon Godlewski
JoVE (2021)

Extended iron phthalocyanine islands self-assembled on a Ge(001):H surface
Rafal Zuzak, Marek Szymonski, Szymon Godlewski
Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. (2021)

On-Surface Synthesis and Intermolecular Cycloadditions of Indacenoditetracenes, Antiaromatic Analogues of Undecacene
RRafal Zuzak, Otilia Stoica, Rémi Blieck, Antonio M. Echavarren, Szymon Godlewski
ACS Nano (2021)

2020
On-Surface Synthesis of Chlorinated Narrow Graphene Nanoribbon Organometallic Hybrids
Rafal Zuzak, Pedro Brandimarte, Piotr Olszowski, Irena Izydorczyk, Marios Markoulides, Bartosz Such, Marek Kolmer, Marek Szymonski, Aran Garcia-Lekue, Daniel Sánchez-Portal, André Gourdon, and Szymon Godlewski
J. Phys. Chem. Lett. (2020)

On-Surface Synthesis with Atomic Hydrogen
Rafal Zuzak, Andrej Janèaøík, Andre Gourdon, Marek Szymonski, and Szymon Godlewski
ACS NANO (2020)

Bottom-up Assembly of Nanoporous Graphene with Emergent Electronic States
Peter H. Jacobse, Ryan D. McCurdy, Jingwei Jiang, Daniel J. Rizzo, Gregory Veber, Paul Butler, Rafa³ Zuzak, Steven G. Louie, Felix R. Fischer, and Michael F. Crommie
JACS 142, 31, 13507–13514 (2020)

2019
Synthesis and reactivity of a trigonal porous nanographene on a gold surface
Rafal Zuzak, Iago Pozo, Mads Engelund, Aran Garcia-Lekue, Manuel Vilas-Varela, José M Alonso, Marek Szymonski, Enrique Guitián, Dolores Pérez, Szymon Godlewski, Diego Pena
Chemical Science 10, 10143-10148 (2019)

Electronic transport in planar atomic-scale structures measured by two-probe scanning tunneling spectroscopy
Marek Kolmer, Pedro Brandimarte, Jakub Lis, Rafal Zuzak, Szymon Godlewski, Hiroyo Kawai, Aran Garcia-Lekue, Nicolas Lorente, Thomas Frederiksen, Christian Joachim, Daniel Sanchez-Portal, Marek Szymonski
Nature Communications 10, 1573 (2019)

Fluorine-programmed nanozipping to tailored nanographenes on rutile TiO2 surfaces
M. Kolmer, R. Zuzak, A. K. Steiner, L. Zajac, M. Engelund, S. Godlewski, M. Szymonski, K. Amsharov
Science 363, 57-60 (2019)

2018
Building a 22-ring nanographene by combining in-solution and on-surface syntheses
Rafal Zuzak, Jesus Castro-Esteban, Pedro Brandimarte, Mads Engelund, Agustín Cobas, Piotr Pi¹tkowski, Marek Kolmer, Dolores Pérez, Enrique Guitián, Marek Szymonski, Daniel Sánchez-Portal, Szymon Godlewski, Diego Pena
Chem. Commun. 54, 10256-10259 (2018)

Higher Acenes by On-Surface Dehydrogenation: From Heptacene to Undecacene
Rafal Zuzak, Ruth Dorel, Marek Kolmer, Marek Szymonski, Szymon Godlewski, Antonio M. Echavarren
Angewandte Chemie 57, 33, 10500-10505 (2018)

Site-selective reversible Diels–Alder reaction between a biphenylene-based polyarene and a semiconductor surface
Szymon Godlewski, Mads Engelund, Diego Pena, Rafa³ Zuzak, Hiroyo Kawai, Marek Kolmer, Jorge Caeiro, Enrique Guitián, K. Peter C. Vollhardt, Daniel Sánchez-Portal, Marek Szymonski, Dolores Pérez
PCCP 20, 11037-11046 (2018)

2017
Two-probe STM experiments at the atomic level
Marek Kolmer, Piotr Olszowski, Rafal Zuzak, Szymon Godlewski, Christian Joachim, Marek Szymonski
J. Phys.: Condes. Matter 29, 444004 (2017)

Nonacene Generated by On-Surface Dehydrogenation
Rafal Zuzak, Ruth Dorel, Mariusz Krawiec, Bartosz Such, Marek Kolmer, Marek Szymonski, Antonio M Echavarren, Szymon Godlewski
ACS Nano 11, 9, 9321–9329 (2017)

Hydroxyl-Induced Partial Charge States of Single Porphyrins on Titania Rutile
Rémy Pawlak, Ali Sadeghi, Res Jöhr, Antoine Hinaut, Tobias Meier, Shigeki Kawai, £ukasz Zajac, Piotr Olszowski, Szymon Godlewski, Bartosz Such, Thilo Glatzel, Stefan Goedecker, Marek Szymoñski, Ernst Meyer
J. Phys. Chem. C 121, 6, 3607-3614 (2017)

Ordering of Zn-centered porphyrin and phthalocyanine on TiO2(011): STM studies
Piotr Olszowski, Lukasz Zajac, Szymon Godlewski, Bartosz Such, Rémy Pawlak, Antoine Hinaut, Res Jöhr, Thilo Glatzel, Ernst Meyer, Marek Szymonski
Beilstein J. Nanotechnolgy 8, 99-107 (2017)

2016
Single-Molecule Rotational Switch on a Dangling Bond Dimer Bearing
Szymon Godlewski, Hiroyo Kawai, Marek Kolmer, Rafa³ Zuzak, Antonio M. Echavarren, Christian Joachim, Marek Szymonski, Mark Saeys
ACS Nano 10, 9, 8499–8507 (2016)

Self-assembling of Zn porphyrins on a (110) face of rutile TiO2-The anchoring role of carboxyl groups
Zajac Lukasz,Olszowski Piotr, Godlewski Szymon, Bodek, Lukasz, Such Bartosz, Johr Res, Pawlak Remy, Hinaut Antoine, Glatzel Thilo, Meyer Ernst, Szymonski Marek
Applied Surface Science 379, 277-281 (2016)

The butterfly – a well-defined constant-current topography pattern on Si(001):H and Ge(001):H resulting from current-induced defect fluctuations
Mads Engelund, Szymon Godlewski, Marek Kolmer, Rafa³ Zuzak, Bartosz Such, Thomas Frederiksen, Marek Szymonski, Daniel Sánchez-Portal
PCCP 18, 19309-19317 (2016)

Diels–Alder attachment of a planar organic molecule to a dangling bond dimer on a hydrogenated semiconductor surface
Szymon Godlewski, Hiroyo Kawai, Mads Engelund, Marek Kolmer, Rafal Zuzak, Aran Garcia-Lekue, Gerard Novell-Leruth, Antonio M. Echavarren, Daniel Sanchez-Portal, Christian Joachimhi, Mark Saeys
PCCP 18, 16757-16765 (2016)

Interaction of a conjugated polyaromatic molecule with a single dangling bond quantum dot on a hydrogenated semiconductor
Szymon Godlewski, Marek Kolmer, Mads Engelund, Hiroyo Kawai, Rafal Zuzak, Aran Garcia-Lekue, Mark Saeys, Antonio M. Echavarren, Christian Joachim, Daniel Sanchez-Portal, Marek Szymonski
PCCP 18, 3854-3861 (2016)

PATENTS


Sposób podstawienia atomów halogenu atomami wodoru w podstawionych halogenem cz¹steczkach zwi¹zków aromatycznych
R. Zuzak, S. Godlewski, M. Kolmer
Pat.236198