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Overview

André Gourdon is affiliated with the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in France. Their research primarily spans the fields of Engineering, Materials Science, and Chemistry. Within these areas, their work focuses on subfields including Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Organic Chemistry, Biomedical Engineering, and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics.

The scientist's research explores several main topics such as Surface Chemistry and Catalysis, Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures, Fullerene Chemistry and Applications, Graphene Research and Applications, Synthesis and Properties of Aromatic Compounds, Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics, and Carbon Nanotubes in Composites.

Frequent co-authors in their research include Andrej Jančařík, Jan Holec, Cristina Mattioli, Pengcheng Ding, and Ye Sun. These collaborations indicate a network of researchers working across varied aspects of chemistry and materials science.

André Gourdon has contributed to publications across several prominent scientific journals. The most common venues for their work are Angewandte Chemie International Edition and Angewandte Chemie, with four publications each, followed by ChemPlusChem with three publications. They also have multiple papers in ACS Nano and Nature Communications.

Selected recent papers include:

  • Long-range ordered and atomic-scale control of graphene hybridization by photocycloaddition, 2020, Nature Chemistry
  • On-Surface Synthesis with Atomic Hydrogen, 2020, ACS Nano
  • A Large Starphene Comprising Pentacene Branches, 2021, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Preparative-scale synthesis of nonacene, 2022, Nature Communications
  • On-Surface Synthesis of Chlorinated Narrow Graphene Nanoribbon Organometallic Hybrids, 2020, The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Best Publications

  • Molecules on insulating films: scanning-tunneling microscopy imaging of individual molecular orbitals.

    Jascha Repp;Gerhard Meyer;Sladjana M. Stojković;André Gourdon

  • Bond-order discrimination by atomic force microscopy.

    Leo Gross;Fabian Mohn;Nikolaj Moll;Bruno Schuler

  • Conformational changes of single molecules induced by scanning tunneling microscopy manipulation: a route to molecular switching.

    Francesca Moresco;Gerhard Meyer;Karl-Heinz Rieder;Hao Tang

  • Properties of large organic molecules on metal surfaces

    Federico Rosei;Michael Schunack;Yoshitaka Naitoh;Ping Jiang

  • Mononuclear and Binuclear Tetrapyrido[3,2-a:2‘,3‘-c:3‘‘,2‘‘-h:2‘‘‘,3‘‘‘-j]phenazine (tpphz) Ruthenium and Osmium Complexes

    Joseph Bolger;André Gourdon;Eléna Ishow;Jean-Pierre Launay

  • Topological Effects on Intramolecular Electron Transfer via Quantum Interference

    Cendrine Patoux;Christophe Coudret;Jean-Pierre Launay;and Christian Joachim

  • Organic Molecules Acting as Templates on Metal Surfaces

    F. Rosei;M. Schunack;P. Jiang;A. Gourdon

  • On-surface covalent coupling in ultrahigh vacuum.

    André Gourdon

  • Spatially Resolved Tunneling along a Molecular Wire

    V. J. Langlais;R. R. Schlittler;H. Tang;A. Gourdon

  • A rack-and-pinion device at the molecular scale

    Franco Chiaravalloti;Leo Gross;Karl-Heinz Rieder;Sladjana M. Stojkovic

  • Covalent networks through on-surface chemistry in ultra-high vacuum: state-of-the-art and recent developments

    Grégory Franc;Grégory Franc;André Gourdon;André Gourdon

  • Single organic molecules for photonic quantum technologies.

    C. Toninelli;I. Gerhardt;A.S. Clark;A. Reserbat-Plantey

  • Step-by-step rotation of a molecule-gear mounted on an atomic-scale axis.

    C. Manzano;W.-H. Soe;H. S. Wong;F. Ample

  • Chemistry of Iron with Dipicolinic Acid. 1. Mononuclear Complexes of Iron(II) or Iron(III)

    P. Laine;A. Gourdon;J.-P. Launay

  • Bicomponent Supramolecular Architectures at the Vacuum-Solid Interface.

    Xavier Bouju;Cristina Mattioli;Grégory Franc;Adeline Pujol

  • Probing the different stages in contacting a single molecular wire.

    Francesca Moresco;Leo Gross;Micol Alemani;Karl-Heinz Rieder

  • Recording Intramolecular Mechanics during the Manipulation of a Large Molecule

    Francesca Moresco;Gerhard Meyer;Karl-Heinz Rieder;Hao Tang

  • One-Dimensional Assembly and Selective Orientation of Lander Molecules on an O–Cu Template

    Roberto Otero;Yoshitaka Naitoh;Federico Rosei;Federico Rosei;Ping Jiang

  • Photophysics of Dinuclear Ru(II) and Os(II) Complexes Based on the Tetrapyrido[3,2-a:2‘,3‘-c:3‘ ‘,2‘ ‘-h:2‘ ‘‘-3‘ ‘‘-j]phenazine (tpphz) Bridging Ligand

    Claudio Chiorboli;and Carlo Alberto Bignozzi;Franco Scandola;Eléna Ishow

  • Stepwise syntheses of mono- and di-nuclear ruthenium tpphz complexes [(bpy)2Ru(tpphz)]2– and [(bpy)2Ru(tpphz)Ru(bpy)2]4+{tpphz = tetrapyrido[3,2-a: 2′,3′-c: 3″,2″-h: 2″,3‴-j]phenazine}

    Joseph Bolger;André Gourdon;Eléna Ishow;Jean-Pierre Launay

  • Cu-TBPP and PTCDA molecules on insulating surfaces studied by ultra-high-vacuum non-contact AFM

    Laurent Nony;Laurent Nony;Roland Bennewitz;Oliver Pfeiffer;Enrico Gnecco

Frequent Co-Authors

Christian Joachim
Christian Joachim Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Karl-Heinz Rieder
Karl-Heinz Rieder Freie Universität Berlin
Leo Gross
Leo Gross IBM (United States)
Flemming Besenbacher
Flemming Besenbacher Aarhus University
Jean-Pierre Launay
Jean-Pierre Launay Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Erik Lægsgaard
Erik Lægsgaard Aarhus University
Ivan Stensgaard
Ivan Stensgaard Aarhus University
Federico Rosei
Federico Rosei Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique
Gerhard Meyer
Gerhard Meyer IBM (United States)
Yves Jeannin
Yves Jeannin Sorbonne University

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