Molecular Materials(Organic Conductors)

30 Years of Research in Portugal

Luís Alcácer

How it all started

NATO Summer Schoolon

Electron Spin Resonance

Coimbra ca 1966

me

At UCR — in deep reflexion

Making Per2-Ni(mnt)2 for the first time

Serendipity = unanticipated truth

Umberto ECOe.g.: The discovery of America by Christopher Colombus

Desperately trying to tune the ESR machine

Pause

The Chemistry Department of LFEN in the seventies

The Group in the early days: M.Almeida, L.Alcácer, R. Henriques, T.Leal(IST), H. Novais

F. Pedroso, H. Novais, L. Alcácer, R. Henriques, M. Almeida

With Jan Kommandeur

Denis Jerome

Watching the famous soccer match at Tomar (Sept 1979)

The Trophy

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

Purification of peryleneA Per2[Pt(mnt2)] crystalReady to me measured

Measuring TEA-TCNQ (M.A)

L. VeirosThe 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 alNATURE VOL 417 13 JUNE 2002, 723

December 29th 1959 At the annual meeting of the American Physical Society at Caltech

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Converging Technologiesfor Improving Human PerformanceNANOTECHNOLOGY, BIOTECHNOLOGY, INFORMATIONTECHNOLOGY AND COGNITIVE SCIENCENSF/DOC-sponsored report

"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.