NSEC Executive Committee Member
Higgins Professor
Department of Chemistry
flynn@chem.columbia.edu
Flynn Group Webpage

We use scanning tunneling microscopy to study the physical, chemical and electronic properties of molecular adsorbates, with particular emphasis on the investigation of spontaneous and induced chiral separation at liquid-solid interfaces; the reaction of small organic species on iron oxide surfaces; the formation and detection of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons on surfaces; and the elucidation of self-assembly processes important in molecular electronics.

• G. M. Florio, T. L. Werblowsky, T. Mueller, B. J. Berne, and G. W. Flynn, “The Self-Assembly of Small Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons on Graphite: A Combined STM and Theoretical Approach”, J. Phys. Chem. B 109, 4520-4532 (2005).
• T. Mueller, T. L. Werblowsky, G. M. Florio, B. J. Berne, and G. W. Flynn, “Ultra-High Vacuum Scanning Tunneling Microscopy and Theoretical Studies of 1-Halohexane Monolayers on Graphite: Functional Group Interactions, Self-Assembly, and Image Contrast”, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 102, 5315-5322 (2005).
• G. M. Florio, J. E. Klare, M. O. Pasamba, T. L. Werblowsky, M. Hyers, B. J. Berne, M. S. Hybertsen, C. Nuckolls and G. W. Flynn, “Using Chiral Molecular Gears to Frustrate Ostwald”, submitted.