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Molecular Materials (Organic Conductors) 30 Years of Research in Portugal. Lu í s Alc á cer. How it all started NATO Summer School on Electron Spin Resonance. Coimbra ca 1966. me. At UCR — in deep reflexion. Making Per2-Ni(mnt)2 for the first time. Serendipity = unanticipated truth.
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Molecular Materials(Organic Conductors)30 Years of Research in Portugal Luís Alcácer
How it all started NATO Summer School on Electron Spin Resonance Coimbra ca 1966 me
Serendipity = unanticipated truth Umberto ECO e.g.: The discovery of America by Christopher Colombus
The Group in the early days: M.Almeida, L.Alcácer, R. Henriques, T.Leal(IST), H. Novais
The Trophy 20 years later At the ICSM 2000 in BadGadstein
The Trophy, at ICSM 2002 in Shangai being passed to the Australian organizers being
A Per2[Pt(mnt2)] crystal Ready to me measured Purification of perylene
L. Veiros The energy band “calculator”
The Polymer Electrolyte Brite Euram team getting the Ecus in Brussels
The single electron Mnt transistor! Why not?
Single atom transistor Single-electron transistor [Co(tpy-(CH2)5-SH)2]2 Cyclic voltammogram I –V curves Upper inset, AFM image of the electrodes with a gap (scale bar, 100 nm). Lower inset, diagram of the device. Jiwoong Park, et al NATURE VOL 417 13 JUNE 2002, 723
December 29th 1959 At the annual meeting of the American Physical Society at Caltech
Converging Technologies for Improving Human Performance NANOTECHNOLOGY, BIOTECHNOLOGY, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND COGNITIVE SCIENCE NSF/DOC-sponsored report http://www.wtec.org/ConvergingTechnologies/
"Abrir los brazos como se abren los ojos" Roberto Matta, 1954 200 x 293 cm.
"The Unthinkable" Roberto Matta, 1957; 198 x 299.7 cm.