About the M2N research group

Welcome to the Molecular Materials and Nanosystems (M2N) research group. The M2N group is an interdepartmental research group at the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), active in the Departments of Applied Physics and Chemical Engineering and Chemistry. It brings together researchers from these two fields and aims at establishing a coherent research and educational program on the physics and chemistry of functional nanostructured organic and inorganic molecular materials and devices.

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Upcoming events

 

14 July  2025

Jay van den Wijngaard  will defend his MSc thesis entitled:  "Synthesis and Electrochemical Characterization of Bipolar Redox-Active Molecules for Nonaqueous Redox Flow Batteries" at 13:30 h in STW 4.91

 

News

  • 7 July 2025 Congratulations to Patrick Diederen who successfully defended MSc thesis "Cutting through the OLED jungle: determining LUMO energies using simulation-assisted field-induced dissociation"
  • 23 June 2025 Congratulations to Lucas Norg who received his MSc diploma Applied Physics today.
  • 17 June 2025 Congratulations to Lars van Erp  who received his MSc diploma Chemical Engineering & Chemistry today.
  • 26 May  2025 Congratulations to Ralph van den Heuvel who successfully defended MSc thesis entitled "Ions on the Move: Measuring Mobile Ions in Metal-Halide Perovskite Solar Cells"
  • 26 May  2025 Congratulations to Lois Fernández Míguez who successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled "Molecular-Scale Model of Pattern Formation in EUV-Lithography Photoresists: Towards Ultimate Resolution Limits (MM2ULTIM)".
  • 26 May  2025 Congratulations to Daan Beerkens who successfully defended his MSc thesis "Interface Engineering with Hole-Selective Self-Assembled Monolayers for High-Performance Perovskite Solar Cells" today.
  • 2 March 2025 A warm welcome to Pugs Anancia Devaneyan who started his PhD today.
  • 26 February 2025 Today the paper of Kunal Datta and Simone van Laar has been published in Nature Communications. It reveals the origin and consequence of surface wrinkling in wide-bandgap perivskites. The work is the resukt of a collaboration with many colleagues in the US. You are invited to read the story behind the paper: Ups and Downs: How Perovskite Films Wrinkle.
  • 17 February 2025 Today Kunal Datta joined our group as a postdoc. We welcome him back to our laboratories after he spent two years in Georgia Tech.
  • 24 January 2025 Congratulations to Nanno de Rooij  who successfully defended his MSc thesis“Describing Exciplexes as a Photophysically Active Species".
  • 2 January 2025 The joint first author paper of Junke Wang and Bruno Branco Performance and stability analysis of all-perovskite tandem photovoltaics in light-driven electrochemical water splitting has been published in Nature Communications today.
  • 23 December 2024 Today the paper Steering perovskite precursor solutions for multijunction photovoltaics of Shuaifeng Hu and Junke Wang in Henry Snaith’s group at Oxford University was published in Nature. From our lab Guus Aalbers and Nick Schipper were involved. It was a genuine pleasure to contribute to this excellent piece work on multijunction perovskite photovoltaics.
  • 20 December 2024 Congratulations to Gies Theuws  who successfully defended his MSc thesis "Graph Neural Networks including morphological effects for accurate prediction of molecular excitation energies in OLEDs".
  • 18 December  2024 Congratulations to Matthijs van Velzen  who successfully defended his MSc thesis "Polaritonic Features in Reflection Spectra of a Single Crystal and Thin Films of Squaraine Dyes".
  • 17 December 2024 Congratulations to Henry Kwan  who received his MSc diploma today from Chemistry and Physics.
  • 15 November 2024 Congratulations to Hiroki Tomita and Christian McDonald for winning the prizes for the best oral (1st place) and best poster (5th place) at the ICEL 2024 in Kyoto.
 
  • 15 October 2024 A warm welcome to Boudewijn Coenegracht who started his PhD today
  • 15 October 2024 A warm welcome to Daan van Herpt who started his PhD today.
  • 9 October 2024 Congratulations to Dr. Willemijn Remmerswaal  who successfully defended her PhD thesis "Measuring Voltage with Light: Absolute Photoluminescence of Metal Halide Perovskites".
  • 1 October 2024 Congratulations to Lucas Norg who successfully defended his MSc thesis "Simulation-assisted experimental study of field-induced dissociation of Ir-based emitters in binary systems to determine exciton binding energies".
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