Presentación elaborada por la Doctoa en física,Patricia Losada Pérez, n la que explica la relevancia del Premio Nobel de Física 2016.

1. NOBEL PRIZE PHYSICS 2016

2. NOBEL PRIZE PHYSICS 2016
“It has combined beautiful mathematics and profound physics insights, and achieved unexpected results that has been confirmed by experiments”
Bizarre properties of matter at cold or condensed states — for instance, when super-cold materials conduct electricity without
resistance — could be explained by the mathematics of topology. Using topology, Thouless, Haldane, and Kosterlitz were able to
elucidate mysteries like how super-cold films of helium change their phase of matter, and how those phase transitions then
change their properties (like how conductive they are to electricity and magnetism).

3. NOBEL PRIZE PHYSICS 2016
Stanene is an insulator on the inside, and a conductor on the outside.
Thin layers of stanene are essentially all surface, and should conduct
electricity with 100% efficiency.
Materials conduct electricity when electrons flow through them. However, in most
materials, the electrons are held up by impurities and other features that give rise to
resistance. This resistance generates heat, and so electronics must be cooled to stop
them melting. Stanene promises to change all that. The structure of the material
allows electrons to shoot along channels with no resistance.
Stanene can be seen as the natural successor to copper interconnects in computers.
This might seem niche, but atomically thin connections that don't heat up would
enable designers to miniaturise electronics even more. Ultimately, Zhang says stanene
could replace silicon as a cheap and abundant material from which to make computer
chips.
One-atom-thick sheets of tin (Sn)
TOPOLOGICAL INSULATOR

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EMINT group at IMO at UHasselt
Corrosion product: NANOPOROUS GOLD

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HOW DOES TOPOLOGY AFFECT NP-Au properties (mechanical) and surface engineering?

6. NOBEL PRIZE CHEMISTRY 2016

7. NOBEL PRIZE CHEMISTRY 2016
“for develop[ing] molecules with controllable movements, which can perform a task when energy is added”
Richard Feynman’s famous “Plenty of Room at the Bottom”

8. NOBEL PRIZE CHEMISTRY 2016
“for develop[ing] molecules with controllable movements, which can perform a task when energy is added”
Richard Feynman’s famous “Plenty of Room at the Bottom”

9. NOBEL PRIZE CHEMISTRY 2016

10. NOBEL PRIZE CHEMISTRY 2016

11. NOBEL PRIZE CHEMISTRY 2016
molecular ring that fit around an electron-rich "axle." When he
applied heat, the ring moved back and forth on the axle, like a
shuttle

12. NOBEL PRIZE CHEMISTRY 2016
Normally, molecules spin back and forth erratically. But Feringa
created chemical structures that, when exposed to pulses of
UV light, spun continuously in one direction

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15. STM
NOBEL PRIZE PHYSICS 2016
Electron tunnel current will excite the molecules and make them move