Scanning probe microscopy (SPM), a key invention in nanoscience, has by now been
extended to a wide spectrum of basic and applied fields. Its application to basic science led …

For the past three decades nanoscience has widely affected many areas in physics,
chemistry and engineering, and has led to numerous fundamental discoveries, as well as …

Fractionalization is a phenomenon in which strong interactions in a quantum system drive
the emergence of excitations with quantum numbers that are absent in the building blocks …

Unlike classic spins, quantum magnets are spin systems that interact via the exchange
interaction and exhibit collective quantum behaviours, such as fractional excitations …

The search for topological phases of matter is evolving towards strongly interacting systems,
including magnets and superconductors, where exotic effects emerge from the quantum …

Triangular zigzag nanographenes, such as triangulene and its π‐extended homologues,
have received widespread attention as organic nanomagnets for molecular spintronics, and …

Emergence of π-magnetism in open-shell nanographenes has been theoretically predicted
decades ago but their experimental characterization was elusive due to the strong chemical …

Nanographenes with zigzag edges are predicted to manifest non-trivial π-magnetism
resulting from the interplay of concurrent electronic effects, such as hybridization of localized …

Control of single electron spins constitutes one of the most promising platforms for
spintronics, quantum sensing, and quantum information processing. Utilizing single …

Graphene quantum dots (GQDs) not only have potential applications on spin qubit, but also
serve as essential platforms to study the fundamental properties of Dirac fermions, such as …