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Two-dimensional materials are atomically thin crystals with a huge variety of physico-chemical properties. By stacking such materials into heterostructures we can combine the electrical, optical, and vibrational excitations of different materials with atomic control over their interfaces. Despite the great selection of 2D materials existing today, we desire novel routes for their preparation in addition to cleaving them from layered bulk parent compounds.In this talk I discuss a concept for novel 2D materials from organic molecules: Growing molecules into well-defined 2D and 1D lattices. We prepared 2D lattices of flat aromatic molecules using hexagonal boron nitride and graphene as atomically smooth substrates. The molecules are well separated in space and oriented side-by-side so that electrons and vibrations are confined to the individual building blocks. However, the interaction between their optical and vibrational transition dipole moments gives rise to collective states that can propagate inside the lattices. One-dimensional molecular lattices are grown by filling carbon- and boron-nitride nanotubes leading to giant J aggregates inside the tubes. We discuss how to use molecular lattices for advance molecular-2D-material heterostructures and how to manipulate their emergent optical excitations.

Microelectrode array (MEA) technology is routinely used to measure the physiological activity of electrogenic cells. We will present two novel high-density MEA (HD-MEA) systems designed for studying neural signals at high resolution, in networks and single cells. Additionally, we will highlight key applications, including neurocomputing, present relevant data and analysis techniques, and demonstrate how our HD-MEA technology advances the study of physiological processes in biological samples