Zentralinstitut für Neue Materialien und Prozesstechnik

Bachelor Thesis

• New Antimicrobial Block Copolymers

Master Thesis

• Synthesis of Molecules with Different Asymmetric Elements: Transfer and Amplification of Chirality

Ph.D. Thesis

• Stereoselective Synthesis of Chiral Molecular Nanographenes: Electronic, Chiroptical and Supramolecular Properties

Research Area

• Graphene Patterning with Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons and Chiral Molecules

 

Education and Research Experience

 

From Sep 2024	Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Researcher at the Center of Advanced Materials and Processes (ZMP) of the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg (Germany). Graphene Patterning with Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons and Chiral Molecules. Dr. rer. nat. Frank Hauke and Prof. Dr. Andreas Hirsch
Feb 2019 – May 2024	PhD in Organic Chemistry. Complutense University of Madrid (UCM). “Stereoselective Synthesis of Chiral Molecular Nanographenes: Electronic, Chiroptical and Supramolecular Properties” Supervisors: Prof. Salvatore Filippone and Prof. Nazario Martín.
Sep 2016 – Jul 2017	Master’s Degree in Organic Chemistry. Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) “Synthesis of Molecules with Different Asymmetric Elements: Transfer and Amplification of Chirality” Supervisor: Prof. Luis Sánchez.
Oct 2010 – Jul 2016	Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry. Complutense University of Madrid (UCM)

  

Publications

 

2025

• Buendía M., Stasyuk A. J., Filippone S., Solà M. Martín, N.:
  All-carbon supramolecular complexation of a bilayer molecular nanographene with [60] and [70]fullerenes
  In: Organic Chemistry Frontiers, 2025, 12, 1438-1443
  ISSN: 2052-4129
  DOI: 10.1039/D4QO02071E
  URL: https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2025/qo/d4qo02071e

2024

• Buendía M., Fernández-García J. M., Perles J., Filippone S., Martín N.:
  Enantioselective synthesis of a two-fold inherently chiral molecular nanographene
  In: Nature Synthesis, 2024, 3, 545–553
  ISSN: 2731-0582
  DOI: 10.1038/s44160-024-00484-x
  URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s44160-024-00484-x

2022

• Fernández-García J. M., Izquierdo-García P., Buendía M., Filippone S., Martín N.:
  Synthetic chiral molecular nanographenes: the key figure of the racemization barrier
  In: Chemical Communications, 2022, 58, 2634-2645
  ISSN: 1364-548X
  DOI: 10.1039/D1CC06561K
  URL: https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2022/cc/d1cc06561k