Dr. Florian Auras

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Research Group Leader

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Mr Dr. Florian Auras

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Chair for Molecular Functional Materials

Chair for Molecular Functional Materials

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Modulgebäude, MOD 113 Stadtgutstr. 59

01217 Dresden

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OPEN POSITIONS

We are always on the lookout for bright and enthusiastic students looking to explore key questions at the frontier of synthetic materials chemistry and nanoscale physics. If you are interested in joining our team as Master or PhD students or as postdoctoral researchers, email Florian at .

RESEARCH INTERESTS

I am a materials chemist and spectroscopist who develops new materials with tailored structural and spin-electronic properties via their precise design on a molecular length scale. As materials platforms for my research, I focus on crystalline polymers known as covalent organic frameworks (COFs), molecular cages, and other highly ordered molecular semiconductors. I am particularly interested in developing materials with switchable optical, electronic, and spin-electronic properties for future applications in next-generation information technology, quantum sensing, and photocatalysis.

For more information, see https://www.mpi-halle.mpg.de/725461/dynamics-and-physics-of-2d-frameworks

SHORT CV

Florian studied Materials Science at the University of Augsburg (B.Sc.) and TU München (M.Sc.), and obtained his Doctorate in Physical Chemistry from the University of Munich (LMU) in October 2013.

He then worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher and Subgroup Leader at the University of Munich with Prof. Thomas Bein. In July 2016, he joined Prof. Richard Friend’s group at the University of Cambridge as a Research Associate, where he led the “DNA-assembled semiconductors” team.

In October 2022, he joined Prof. Xinliang Feng’s Chair for Molecular Functional Materials, where he leads the “Dynamics and physics of 2D frameworks” group, with funding from the DFG.

ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT

• 12/2013 – 06/2016: Postdoctoral researcher, University of Munich, Germany.
• 07/2016 – 08/2022: Research Associate, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK.
• 10/2022 – present: Research Group Leader, TUD and Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics, Germany.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

As a physical chemist and materials scientist by training, I am fascinated by constructing new materials with tailored properties via their precise design on the molecular and supramolecular length scales. My current research focuses on crystalline two-dimensional polymers known as Covalent Organic Frameworks (COFs), molecular cages and other (supra-)molecular semiconductor architectures. I am particularly interested in constructing and studying materials with switchable optical, electronic, and spin-electronic properties, for future applications in next-generation information technology.

FUNDING

DFG project “Dynamic 2D covalent organic frameworks” (10/2023 – 09/2026)

SCIENTIFIC ACHIEVEMENTS & RECOGNITION

>40 publications, > 6000 citations, h-index 31.

Full publication list: https://scholar.google.de/citations?user=W5qFljoAAAAJ&hl=de

KEY PUBLICATIONS:

• 1. A. Pratasouskaya, V. Bon, A. Müller, S. Kaskel, F. Auras*
  Dynamic two-dimensional covalent organic frameworks with large solvent-induced lattice expansion
  Journal of the American Chemical Society 2024. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.4c08918

• 2. F. Auras*, L. Ascherl, V. Bon, S. M. Vornholt, S. Krause, M. Döblinger, D. Bessinger, S. Reuter, K. W. Chapman, S. Kaskel, R. H. Friend, T. Bein*

  Dynamic two-dimensional covalent organic frameworks

  Nature Chemistry 2024, 16, 1373. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41557-024-01527-8

• 3. S. R. E. Orsborne, J. Gorman, L. R. Weiss, A. Sridhar, N. A. Panjwani, G. Divitini, P. Budden, D. Palecek, S. T. J. Ryan, A. Rao, R. Collepardo-Guevara, A. H. El-Sagheer, T. Brown, J. Behrends, R. H. Friend*, F. Auras*

  Photogeneration of Spin Quintet Triplet–Triplet Excitations in DNA-Assembled Pentacene Stacks

  Journal of the American Chemical Society 2023, 145, 5431. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.2c13743

• 4. J. Gorman, S. R. E. Orsborne, A. Sridhar, R. Pandya, P. Budden, A. Ohmann, N. A. Panjwani, Y. Liu, J. L. Greenfield, S. Dowland, V. Gray, S. T. J. Ryan, S. De Ornellas, A. El-Sagheer, T. Brown, J. R. Nitschke, J. Behrends, U. F. Keyser, A. Rao, R. Collepardo-Guevara, E. Stulz, R. H. Friend*, F. Auras*

  Deoxyribonucleic Acid Encoded and Size-Defined π-Stacking of Perylene Diimides

  Journal of the American Chemical Society 2022, 144, 368. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.1c10241

• 5. L. Ascherl, E. Evans, J. Gorman, S. Orsborne, D. Bessinger, T. Bein, R. Friend, F. Auras*

  Perylene-based covalent organic frameworks for acid vapour sensing

  Journal of the American Chemical Society 2019, 141, 15693. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.9b08079