Facultad de Ciencias

Lineas de investigación

• Surface Science.
• Self-Assembly.
• Organic/Inorganic Interfaces.
• Scanning Tunneling Microscopy.
• Photoelectron Spectroscopy.
• Atomistic Mechanisms for Catalysis.
• Local Electronic Structure of Nanosystems.

1. Thermal selectivity of intermolecular versus intramolecular reactions on surfaces, Borja Cirera, Nelson Giménez-Agulló, Jonas Björk, Francisco Martínez-Peña, Alberto Martin-Jimenez, Jonathan Rodriguez-Fernandez, Ana M. Pizarro, Roberto Otero, José M. Gallego, Pablo Ballester, José R. Galan-Mascaros & David Ecija, Nature Communications 7, 11002, (2016). [URL]

2. Interfacing Quantum Dots and Graphitic Surfaces with Chlorine Atomic Ligands, Fabiola Iacono, Cristina Palencia, Leonor de la Cueva, Michaela Meyns, Luigi Terracciano, Antje Vollmer, María José de la Mata, Christian Klinke, José M. Gallego, Beatriz H. Juarez, and Roberto Otero, ACS Nano, 7 (3), pp 2559–2565, (2013). [URL]

3. Molecular Self-Assembly at Solid Surfaces, R. Otero, J. M. Gallego, A. L. V. de Parga, N. Martín, and R. Miranda, Adv. Mater., 23: 5148–5176, (2011). [URL]

4. Charge-transfer-induced structural rearrangements at both sides of organic/metal interfaces, Tzu-Chun Tseng, Christian Urban, Yang Wang, Roberto Otero, Steven L. Tait, Manuel Alcamí, David Écija, Marta Trelka, José María Gallego, Nian Lin, Mitsuharu Konuma, Ulrich Starke, Alexei Nefedov, Alexander Langner, Christof Wöll, María Ángeles Herranz, Fernando Martín, Nazario Martín, Klaus Kern & Rodolfo Miranda, Nature Chemistry 2, 374–379, (2010). [URL]

5. Elementary Structural Motifs in a Random Network of Cytosine Adsorbed on a Gold(111) Surface, Roberto Otero, Maya Lukas, Ross E. A. Kelly, Wei Xu, Erik Lægsgaard, Ivan Stensgaard, Lev N. Kantorovich, Flemming Besenbacher, Science 319, 312, (2008). [URL]

6. An Organic Donor/Acceptor Lateral Superlattice at the Nanoscale, Roberto Otero, David Écija, Gustavo Fernández, José María Gallego, Luis Sánchez, Nazario Martín, and Rodolfo Miranda, Nano Lett., 7 (9), pp 2602–2607, (2007). [URL]

7. Metastable Structures and Recombination Pathways for Atomic Hydrogen on the Graphite (0001) Surface, L. Hornekær, Ž. Šljivančanin, W. Xu, R. Otero, E. Rauls, I. Stensgaard, E. Lægsgaard, B. Hammer, and F. Besenbacher, Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 156104, (2006). [URL]

8. Guanine Quartet Networks Stabilized by Cooperative Hydrogen Bonds, R. Otero, M. Schöck, L. M. Molina, E. Lægsgaard, I. Stensgaard, B. Hammer, and F. Besenbacher, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 44: 2270–2275, (2005). [URL]

9. Lock-and-key effect in the surface diffusion of large organic molecules probed by STM, Roberto Otero, Frauke Hümmelink, Fernando Sato, Sergio B. Legoas, Peter Thostrup, Erik Lægsgaard, Ivan Stensgaard, Douglas S. Galvão & Flemming Besenbacher, Nature Materials 3, 779-782, (2004). [URL]

10. Observation of preferred heights in Pb nanoislands: A quantum size effect, Roberto Otero, Amadeo L. Vázquez de Parga, and Rodolfo Miranda, Phys. Rev. B 66, 115401, (2002). [URL]