Palma Lab for atomically precise soft matter technology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences
PalmaLab 2019
Prof. Carlos-Andres Palma
C.-A. Palma is associate professor of physics at the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Prior to joining the Institute of Physics in 2017, he worked at the TU Munich, the Max-Planck Institute for Polymer Research, ETH Zurich, University College London and the University of Strasbourg, where he completed his MSc and PhD in 2010. He's the recipient of over $2 million in research grants and awards, including the Thousand Youth Talents, the CAS Frontier Research and the Sino-German NSFC grant. His current focus is on superconductivity and topological phononics of monolayer molecular devices. palma iphy.ac.cn
Prof. Juan Li
Juan graduated in 2016 from the TU Munich with her thesis entitled "Photoresponsive molecular architectures at interfaces". She is assistant professor at the Beijing Institute of Technology and guest professor and project manager in our lab. lijuan iphy.ac.cn
Dr Xiaoxi Zhang
Xiaoxi joined our lab at CAS as a PhD candidate in 2017 and is now a Chancellor Postdoctoral Fellow and the Lab Manager. He discovered highly-conductive molecular nanowires and works in photoemission microscopy of multivariate nanowires with Prof. Zhi Yiwei and Prof. Fang Shaobo, their strongly coupled exciton-photon devices with Prof. Gu Chang-zhi and their quantum transport with Prof. Zhang Guangyu xiaoxizhang iphy.ac.cn
MSc Yan Wang
Yan joined our lab at CAS as a MSc and PhD candidate in co-supervision with the Beijing Institute of Technology in 2018. She works in quantum transport of carbon sp3 nanowires. yanwang iphy.ac.cn
BSc Mengjie Wang
Mengjie joined our lab at CAS as a MSc and PhD candidate in co-supervision with the Beijing Institute of Technology in 2022. She works in axial coordination lattices mengjiewang iphy.ac.cn
BSc Chenxi Meng
Chenxi joined our lab at CAS as a MSc and PhD candidate in co-supervision with the Beijing Institute of Technology in 2022. He works in quantum transport of molecular wires. chenximeng iphy.ac.cn
BSc Jie Gao
Jie joined our lab at CAS as MSc candidate in co-supervision with the Beijing Institute of Technology. She works in quantum transport of molecular wires. jiegao iphy.ac.cn
BSc Jiangtao Zhu
Jiangtao joined our lab at CAS as a MSc and PhD candidate in co-supervision with the Beijing Institute of Technology. He works in in-operando AFM. jiangtaozhu iphy.ac.cn
Dr Zishu Wang
Zishu joined our lab at CAS as a PhD candidate in 2017. He works on monolayer-by-monolayer fabrication. zswang iphy.ac.cn
Dr Marcus Richter
Marcus visited our lab and Prof. Hong-jun Gao's lab from Prof. Xinliang Feng's group in Dresden. He worked on polyaromatic building blocks. marcus.richter1 tu-dresden.de
Dr Wei Ran
Wei joined our lab as a co-PhD candidate in 2018 in the TU Münich. She works on diamondoid monolayer photoresists and graphene nanoribbon devices on diamond. wei.ran iphy.ac.cn
Dr Sarah Wieghold
Sarah graduated in 2016 working in the groups of Ueli Heiz and Friedrich Esch in a joint collaboration on sensitized graphene solar cells. She is a posdoc in the group of Tonio Buonassisi. wieghold mit.edu
MSc Felix Meggendorfer
Felix joined our lab in the TU Munich as a MSc candidate in 2016. He worked on graphene nanoribbon synthesis and devices on boron nitride. felix.meggendorfer tum.de
MSc Murat Anil Ölner
Murat joined our lab in the TU Munich as a BSc and MSc candidate in 2013. He worked on four publications on simulation and UHV science and defended his MSc thesis "Surface-supported iron-octaethylporphyrin layers and nano-architectures". murat.anil.oener gmail.com
MSc Peng Xie
Peng studied in Chongqing University and Beijing's Institute of High Energy Physics. He joined our lab at the TU Munich as a PhD candidate in 2015 until 2017. He worked on graphene nanoribbon characterization on diamond. peng.xie tum.de
BSc Xinshun Qin
Xinshun joined our lab at CAS as a joint MSc candidate with Prof. Juan Li in 2017. He worked on graphene nanoribbon devices on boron nitride. xinshunqin iphy.ac.cn