As it happened with the previous year, 2020 has been a challenging year for all. However, during this period, FunNanoSurf has successfully worked at the best speed possible to reach goals, keep flowing purposes and add (exciting) new ones. For that, the PIs of the group genuinely appreciate the effort of all the team (Thank you FunNanoSurfers! Your rocked it!).

Overall, we have focused on our two pillars: synthesis-functionalization of surfaces and physico-chemical characterization. Regarding them, first, we have achieved a series of new molecular materials based on Curcuminoids (CCMoids) and started the synthesis of new bipyrimidine derivatives and porphyrazines. This way, (i) multifunctional CCMoids have been designed and attached to functionalized surfaces, functioning as sensors of boron, taking advantage of their effective anchoring groups and luminescent properties that switch upon coordination; (ii) a new family of PAH-CCMoids (polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons) has been attained with the aims of anchoring such materials in hybrid graphene-based nanodevices for single-molecule electronic transport purposes; (iii) a number of CCMoids have been used as polytopic systems coordinating to transition metals and achieving high-dimensional coordination polymers (CPs) and organic polymers (OPs), among them, 2D CCMoid-based materials that are been exfoliated and characterized on different substrates (works published). In addition, (iv) molecular units covalently attached to functionalized electrodes, as for example, graphene and CNTs are being examined; (v) supramolecular approaches are following to control the deposition of bioinspired molecules on different substrates and microparticles and to obtain new bio(inspired) responsive supramolecular polymers; (vi) and new molecular systems are analyzed toward the creation of biommetic surfaces and theranostic materials. In an advanced action, (vii) we are creating and measuring our own graphene-hybrid three-terminal devices and (viii) using different deposition methods (e.g.: exfoliation and sublimation) are measuring the electronic capabilities of our CPs and molecular units.