Lingenfelder is from
Argentina. She was an undergraduate student at the
National University of Córdoba. She completed her Master's thesis at the
Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, where she worked on metal-organic coordination complexes.[5] She remained in Germany for her doctoral research, for which she was awarded the
Otto Hahn Medal in 2008.[1] Her doctoral research investigated sub-molecular resolution of chiral recognition processes.[6]
Research and career
After her PhD, Lingenfelder was a
postdoctoral researcher at the
Spanish National Research Council Institute of Materials Sciences of Barcelona (Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Barcelona) and the
Molecular Foundry.
In 2013, Lingenfelder joined the
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. Her research investigates the development of carefully controlled molecular assemblies which can respond to external stimuli.[2][7] Typically, these interactions are determined by energy or charge transfer processes.[7]
Lingenfelder showed that it was possible to boost the
oxygen evolution reaction (OER) in electrocatalytic water-splitting by functionalising hybrid 2D electrodes with helicene molecules.[8] Specifically, she evaluated the role of chirality by comparing the impact of chiral fused thiadiazole-helicene molecules with 2,1,3-benzothiadiazole, an achiral molecule, on oxygen evolution reactions. She showed that the boost in OER was not solely due to interactions between the thiadiazoles and electrode surfaces. This study also confirmed previously claims of Chiral Induced Spin Selectivity ('CISS') explains that hydrogen peroxide formation is prohibited at spin polarising surfaces.[citation needed]
^Lingenfelder, Magalí A.; Spillmann, Hannes; Dmitriev, Alexandre; Stepanow, Sebastian; Lin, Nian; Barth, Johannes V.; Kern, Klaus (19 April 2004). "Towards Surface-Supported Supramolecular Architectures: Tailored Coordination Assembly of 1,4-Benzenedicarboxylate and Fe on Cu(100)". Chemistry - A European Journal. 10 (8): 1913–1919.
doi:
10.1002/chem.200305589.
PMID15079830.
^Phan, Thanh Hai; Banjac, Karla; Cometto, Fernando P.; Dattila, Federico; García-Muelas, Rodrigo; Raaijman, Stefan J.; Ye, Chunmiao; Koper, Marc T. M.; López, Núria; Lingenfelder, Magalí (10 March 2021). "Emergence of Potential-Controlled Cu-Nanocuboids and Graphene-Covered Cu-Nanocuboids under Operando CO 2 Electroreduction". Nano Letters. 21 (5): 2059–2065.
Bibcode:
2021NanoL..21.2059P.
doi:
10.1021/acs.nanolett.0c04703.
hdl:1887/3204406.
PMID33617268.
S2CID232019318.
^Stel, Bart; Gunkel, Ilja; Gu, Xiaodan; Russell, Thomas P.; De Yoreo, James J.; Lingenfelder, Magalí (23 April 2019). "Contrasting Chemistry of Block Copolymer Films Controls the Dynamics of Protein Self-Assembly at the Nanoscale". ACS Nano. 13 (4): 4018–4027.
doi:
10.1021/acsnano.8b08013.
PMID30917283.
S2CID85543748.
^Cometto, Fernando P.; Kern, Klaus; Lingenfelder, Magalí (26 May 2015). "Local Conformational Switching of Supramolecular Networks at the Solid/Liquid Interface". ACS Nano. 9 (5): 5544–5550.
doi:
10.1021/acsnano.5b01658.
hdl:11336/43565.
PMID25857528.