Current Position

Aurora and Thomas Marquez Professor of Physics of Complex Quantum Matter, Department of Physics and Astronomy
Director of Stavropoulos Center for Complex Quantum Matter

Education

Ph.D., University of Zagreb, Croatia, 1985
Doctorate of 3rg cycle (French degree), Université Paris-Sud, France, 1982
M.S., Eötvös University, Budapest, Hungary, 1979

Research Interests

Prof. Forró's research interests are in the fields of quantum electronic materials, functional nanostructures, and biomaterials. His research focuses on topics in synthesis and physical properties and manipulation of carbon nanostuctures and nanostuctured arrays; oxidative stress and toxicity of various nanostructures; mechanical properties of biological tubular systems, carbon nanotubes, and carbon onions by AFM; transport and electron spin resonance of molecular materials, quasi-one-dimensional organic metals, organic superconductors, cuprates, and manganates and fullerenes up to high pressures; tunneling spectroscopy in cuprate and fullerene superconductors; and optical properties of strongly correlated systems and biomaterials.

Key Words

Sustainable and secure nuclear; energy systems, technology, and processes; materials science; quantum materials; quantum mechanics; electronic transport and magnetism; nanostructures

Relevant Energy Publications

1. B. G. Márkus, M. Gmitra, B. Dóra, G. Csősz, T. Fehér, P. Szirmai, B. Náfrádi, V. Zólyomi, L. Forró, J. Fabian, F. Simon: “Ultralong 100 ns spin relaxation time in graphite at room temperature”, Nature Communications 14, 2831 (2023).
2. P. Karnatak, Z. Mingazheva, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, H. Berger, L. Forró, C. Schönenberger: “Origin of subgap states in normal-insulator-superconductor van der Waals heterostructures”, Nano Letters 23, 2454-2459 (2023).
3. J. Vujančević, P. Andričević, V. Djokić, V. Blagojević, V. P. Pavlović, J. Ćirković, E. Horváth, L. Forró, A. Karoui, V. B. Pavlović, D. Janaćković: “Effect of the Deposition of Vanadium-Oxide on the Photocatalytic Activity of TiO2 Nanotubes and Its Photodiode Performance Interfaced with CH3NH3PbI3 Single Crystal”, Catalysts 13, 352 (2023).
4. D. Lin, S. Li, J. Wen, H. Berger, L. Forro, H. Zhou, S. Jia, T. Taniguchi, K. Watanabe, X.Xi, and M.S. Bahramy: Patterns and driving forces of dimensionality-dependent charge density waves in 2H-type transition metla dichalcogenides, Nature Communications, 11, 2406 (2020).
5. E. Horvath, L. Rossi, C. Mercier, C. Lehmann, A. Sienkiewicz, and L. Forro: Photocatlytic nanowries-based air filter: Towards resuable protective masks. Advanced Functional Materials, 30, 2004615 (2020).

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