Dr. Yunjun Cao

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Academic positionPost Doc
Research fieldsPhysical Chemistry at Surfaces,Spectroscopy
Keywordscarbene chemistry, scanning probe microscopy, solvation, surface chemistry, single-molecule studies

Current contact address

CountryGermany
CityBochum
InstitutionRuhr-Universität Bochum
InstituteLehrstuhl für Physikalische Chemie I
Homepagehttps://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/pc1/lehrstuhl/Yunjun_Cao.html

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Karina MorgensternLehrstuhl für Physikalische Chemie I, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum
Start of initial sponsorship01/10/2019

Programme(s)

2019Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs

Publications (partial selection)

2025Yunjun Cao, Dave Austin, Eric D. Switzer, Julien F. Rowen, Wolfram Sander, Talat S. Rahman, and Karina Morgenstern: Inelastic electron tunneling spectroscopy as a probe of electronic coupling at a molecule-metal interface. In: Phys. Rev. B, 111, 2025, 115426
2025Wei-Peng Shao, Yunjian Ling, Hongru Peng, Jie Luo, Yunjun Cao, Yihua Ran, Jun Cai, Jiayu Lv, Bowen Zhu, Yun Liu, Yuxiang Chen, Na Li, Feng Jiao, Huiqi Chen, Yifeng Zhu, Xin Ou, Yuemin Wang, Christof Wöll, Qiang Fu, Xiulian Pan, Peijun Hu, Wei-Xue Li, Zhi Liu, Xinhe Bao, Fan Yang: Ion Irradiation-Induced Coordinatively Unsaturated Zn Sites for Enhanced CO Hydrogenation. In: J. Am. Chem. Soc., 147, 2025, 5703–5713
2025Yunjun Cao, Elisabeth Keller, Julien F. Rowen, Johannes T. Margraf, Karsten Reuter, Karina Morgenstern: Self-Assembly of Monosized Cyclic Nanoarchitectures under Surface Confinement. In: ACS Nano, 19, 2025, 21942–21949
2023Yunjun Cao, Joel Mieres-Perez, Julien Frederic Rowen, Elsa Sanchez-Garcia, Wolfram Sander, and Karina Morgenstern: Chirality control of a single carbene molecule by tip-induced van der Waals interactions. In: Nature Communications, 14, 2023, 4500
2023Yunjun Cao, Joel Mieres-Perez, Karsten Lucht, Iris Ulrich, Paul Schweer, Elsa Sanchez-Garcia, Karina Morgenstern, and Wolfram Sander: C–C Coupling of Carbene Molecules on a Metal Surface in the Presence of Water. In: J. Am. Chem. Soc., 21, 2023, 11544–11552