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Palii A, Aldoshin S, Tsukerblat B. Theoretical insight into clocking in a molecular mixed-valence cell of quantum cellular automata through the vibronic approach. J Chem Phys 2024; 160:014302. [PMID: 38174797 DOI: 10.1063/5.0179133] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/29/2023] [Accepted: 12/06/2023] [Indexed: 01/05/2024] Open
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In this article, we develop a vibronic theory of clocking in molecular quantum cellular automata (QCA). The clocking mechanism is considered for a trigonal trimeric mixed-valence (MV) system with one mobile electron, which is shown to act as the dimeric unit encoding binary information (Boolean states 0 or 1) coupled to a third redox center (Null state). The model includes the electron transfer between the three centers; vibronic coupling of the mobile charge with the "breathing" modes, forming a double degenerate Jahn-Teller vibration of the molecular triangle; and two electric fields, one collinear to the dimeric unit, which controls the binary states, and the other perpendicular to this unit, performing clocking. In the framework of the adiabatic approximation, the potential surface of the trimeric system has been studied and the condition determining switching and clocking has been analyzed in terms of the two controlling fields and the vibronic and transfer parameters. A thorough understanding of the site populations is achieved through the quantum-mechanical solution of the vibronic problem, maintaining the adiabatic condition for the controlling fields. It is shown that a MV trimer can act as a molecular clocked QCA cell, with favorable conditions being a positive electron transfer parameter and sufficiently strong vibronic coupling.
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- Andrew Palii
- Federal Research Center of Problems of Chemical Physics and Medicine Chemistry of RAS, Moscow Region, Chernogolovka 142432, Russian Federation
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- Federal Research Center of Problems of Chemical Physics and Medicine Chemistry of RAS, Moscow Region, Chernogolovka 142432, Russian Federation
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- Department of Chemistry, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, 84105 Beer-Sheva, Israel
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Montenegro-Pohlhammer N, Palomino CM, Calzado CJ. Exploring the potential as molecular quantum-dot cellular automata of a mixed-valence Ru2 complex deposited on a Au(111) surface. Inorg Chem Front 2023. [DOI: 10.1039/d2qi02647c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/05/2023]
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A Ru2+ complex deposited on a Au(111) surface in the presence of a counterion presents excess charge localized on one side of the molecule. The switching can be promoted by an applied electric field, E, stronger than the critical field strength Ec.
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- Nicolás Montenegro-Pohlhammer
- Laboratory of Theoretical Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry and Biology, University of Santiago de Chile (USACH), 9170022, Santiago, Chile
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- Departamento de Química Física, Universidad de Sevilla, c/ Prof. García González, s/n 41012, Sevilla, Spain
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- Departamento de Química Física, Universidad de Sevilla, c/ Prof. García González, s/n 41012, Sevilla, Spain
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Prototype of cell for quantum cellular automata: multimode vibronic model for a two-electron mixed valence molecular square. Chem Phys 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.chemphys.2022.111679] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Zilberg S, Stekolshik Y, Palii A, Tsukerblat B. Controllable Electron Transfer in Mixed-Valence Bridged Norbornylogous Compounds: Ab Initio Calculation Combined with a Parametric Model and Through-Bond and Through-Space Interpretation. J Phys Chem A 2022; 126:2855-2878. [PMID: 35537213 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.1c09637] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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In the context of a computationally guided approach to the controllable electron transfer in mixed-valence (MV) systems, in this article, we study the electron transfer (ET) in the series of oxidized norbornadiene C7H8 (I) and its polycyclic derivatives, C12H12 (II), C17H16, (III), C27H24 (IV), and C32H28 (V), with variable lengths of the bridge connecting redox sites. The work combines an ab initio CASSCF evaluation of the electronic structure of systems I-V with the parametric description in the framework of the biorbital two-mode vibronic model. The model involves coupling with the "breathing" mode and intercenter vibration modulating the distances between the redox fragments. The ab initio calculations were performed for two types of optimized structures of I-V: (a) charge-localized global minimum (Cs) and (b) symmetric configuration (C2v) with the delocalized charge. This allows one to estimate the potential barrier separating charge-localized configurations as well as vibronic coupling parameters and the electron transfer integral. Along with the adiabatic approach, the quantum-mechanical analysis of the vibronic levels has been applied to precisely estimate the quantum effect of tunneling splitting. We estimate the "through-space" and "through-bond" contributions to the parameters interrelated with the charge transfer (CT). The through-space effect proves to be a major factor of ET at a short distance between the redox centers, whereas the through-bond contribution is dominant at a long distance. Vibronic coupling under the condition of through-space ET leads to the localization of the positive charge on the π-chromophore, while the through-bond component of ET results in compensating σ-shifts and subsequent charge delocalization over the bridge. The limitations of the parametric approach were discussed in the context of the two components contributing to the ET. Particularly, the bridge polarization in the course of through-bond ET proves to be beyond the basis of the employed parametric model.
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- Shmuel Zilberg
- Department of Chemical Sciences, Materials Research Center, Ariel University, 40700 Ariel, Israel
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- Department of Chemical Sciences, Materials Research Center, Ariel University, 40700 Ariel, Israel
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- Laboratory of Molecular Magnetic Nanomaterials, Institute of Problems of Chemical Physics, Academician Semenov Avenue 1, Chernogolovka, Moscow Region 142432, Russian Federation
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- Department of Chemical Sciences, Materials Research Center, Ariel University, 40700 Ariel, Israel.,Department of Chemistry, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, 84105 Beer-Sheva, Israel
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Palii A, Aldoshin S, Tsukerblat B. Towards the design of molecular cells for quantum cellular automata: critical reconsideration of the parameter regime for achieving functionality. Dalton Trans 2021; 51:286-302. [PMID: 34897328 DOI: 10.1039/d1dt03226g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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In this article, we present a critical discussion of the parametric regimes required for reaching the functionality of the two-electron square-planar tetrameric mixed-valence (MV) complexes as molecular cells in quantum cellular automata (QCA). Previous studies on molecular QCA were restricted by the limit case of strong Coulomb interaction that was supposed to be the only way to ensure such two key requirements for functioning QCA cells as bistability and switchability. It was thus assumed that the site-to-site electron transfer energy t should be much smaller than the energy U of the Coulomb repulsion between the two excess electrons (strong-U limit defined by the inequality U ≫ t). Unlike those studies, here, we develop a generalized theoretical approach within which no restricting assumptions are implied on the relative strength of the intracell Coulomb interaction, electron transfer, the vibronic coupling with "breathing" modes of redox sites and the external electrostatic field of the driver cell acting on the working cell. We demonstrate that dominating Coulomb repulsion is not the only source of bistability and switchability, but such key features of QCA cell can be reached even in systems in which the strong-U limit is violated, provided that the vibronic coupling is strong enough. Such a reconsideration of the parameter regime for achieving proper functionality is expected to essentially enlarge the family of MV molecules, which can be used as molecular QCA cells.
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- Andrew Palii
- Institute of Problems of Chemical Physics of Russian Academy of Sciences, Chernogolovka, Moscow Region, 142432 Russia.
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- Institute of Problems of Chemical Physics of Russian Academy of Sciences, Chernogolovka, Moscow Region, 142432 Russia.
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Palii A, Korchagin D, Aldoshin S, Clemente-Juan JM, Zilberg S, Tsukerblat B. Insight Into The Spin-Vibronic Problem of a Mixed Valence Magnetic Molecular Cell for Quantum Cellular Automata. Chemphyschem 2021; 22:1754-1768. [PMID: 34085351 DOI: 10.1002/cphc.202100312] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/23/2021] [Revised: 05/21/2021] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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The effects of the vibronic coupling in quantum cellular automata (QCA) based on the square planar mixed valence (MV) molecular cells comprising four paramagnetic centers (spin cores) and two excess mobile electrons are analyzed in the important particular case when the Coulomb energy gap between the ground antipodal diagonal-type two-electron configurations and the excited side-type configurations considerably exceeds both the one-electron transfer parameter (strong U-limit) and the vibronic stabilization energy. Under such conditions the developed model involves the second-order double exchange, the Heisenberg-Dirac-Van Vleck (HDVV) exchange and the vibronic coupling of the excess electrons with the molecular B1g -vibration composed of four full-symmetric local vibrations. The latter interaction is shown to significant amplify the ability of the electric field produced by the driver-cell to polarize the excess electrons in the working cell, which can be termed "the effect of the vibronic enhancement of the cell-cell interaction". This effect leads to a redetermination of the conditions for switching between different spin-states, as well as to a significant change in the shapes of the cell-cell response functions. The obtained results demonstrate the importance of the vibronic coupling in all aspects (such as description of a free cell and cell-cell response) of the theory of molecular QCA based on MV clusters.
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- Andrew Palii
- Laboratory of Molecular Magnetic Nanomaterials, Institute of Problems of Chemical Physics of Russian Academy of Sciences, Chernogolovka, Moscow Region, 142432, Russia
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- Laboratory of Molecular Magnetic Nanomaterials, Institute of Problems of Chemical Physics of Russian Academy of Sciences, Chernogolovka, Moscow Region, 142432, Russia
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- Laboratory of Molecular Magnetic Nanomaterials, Institute of Problems of Chemical Physics of Russian Academy of Sciences, Chernogolovka, Moscow Region, 142432, Russia
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- Instituto de Ciencia Molecular, Universidad de Valencia, 46980, Paterna, Spain
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- Materials Research Center, University of Ariel, Ramat Ha Golan, 65, 40700, Ariel, Israel
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- Materials Research Center, University of Ariel, Ramat Ha Golan, 65, 40700, Ariel, Israel.,Department of Chemistry, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, 84105, Beer-Sheva, Israel
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Vecchi A, Sabin JR, Sabuzi F, Conte V, Cicero DO, Floris B, Galloni P, Nemykin VN. Similar, Yet Different: Long-Range Metal-Metal Coupling and Electron-Transfer Processes in Metal-Free 5,10,15,20-Tetra(ruthenocenyl)porphyrin. Inorg Chem 2021; 60:8227-8241. [PMID: 34033715 DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.1c00908] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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The electronic structure, redox properties, and long-range metal-metal coupling in metal-free 5,10,15,20-tetra(ruthenocenyl)porphyrin (H2TRcP) were probed by spectroscopic (NMR, UV-vis, magnetic circular dichroism (MCD), and atmospheric pressure chemical ionization (APCI)), electrochemical (cyclic voltammetry, CV, and differential pulse voltammetry, DPV), spectroelectrochemical, and chemical oxidation methods, as well as theoretical (density functional theory, DFT, and time-dependent DFT, TDDFT) approaches. It was demonstrated that the spectroscopic properties of H2TRcP are significantly different from those in H2TFcP (metal-free 5,10,15,20-tetra(ferrocenyl)porphyrin). Ruthenocenyl fragments in H2TRcP have higher oxidation potentials than the ferrocene groups in the H2TFcP complex. Similar to H2TFcP, we were able to access and spectroscopically characterize the one- and two-electron oxidized mixed-valence states in the H2TRcP system. DFT predicts that the porphyrin π-system stabilizes the [H2TRcP]+ mixed-valence cation and prevents its dimerization, which is characteristic for ruthenocenyl systems. However, formation of the mixed-valence [H2TRcP]2+ is significantly less reproducible than the formation of [H2TRcP]+. DFT and TDDFT calculations suggest the ruthenocenyl fragment dominance in the highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO) energy region and the presence of the low-energy MLCT (Rc → porphyrin (π*)) transitions in the visible region with energies higher than the predominantly porphyrin-centered Q-bands.
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- Andrea Vecchi
- Department of Chemical Science and Technologies, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome 0133, Italy.,Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth, Minnesota 55812, United States
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- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth, Minnesota 55812, United States
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- Department of Chemical Science and Technologies, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome 0133, Italy
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- Department of Chemical Science and Technologies, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome 0133, Italy
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- Department of Chemical Science and Technologies, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome 0133, Italy
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- Department of Chemical Science and Technologies, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome 0133, Italy
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- Department of Chemical Science and Technologies, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome 0133, Italy
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- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth, Minnesota 55812, United States.,Department of Chemistry, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, United States
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In Quest of Molecular Materials for Quantum Cellular Automata: Exploration of the Double Exchange in the Two-Mode Vibronic Model of a Dimeric Mixed Valence Cell. MAGNETOCHEMISTRY 2021. [DOI: 10.3390/magnetochemistry7050066] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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In this article, we apply the two-mode vibronic model to the study of the dimeric molecular mixed-valence cell for quantum cellular automata. As such, we consider a multielectron mixed valence binuclear d2−d1–type cluster, in which the double exchange, as well as the Heisenberg-Dirac-Van Vleck exchange interactions are operative, and also the local (“breathing”) and intercenter vibrational modes are taken into account. The calculations of spin-vibronic energy spectra and the “cell-cell”-response function are carried out using quantum-mechanical two-mode vibronic approach based on the numerical solution of the dynamic vibronic problem. The obtained results demonstrate a possibility of combining the function of molecular QCA with that of spin switching in one electronic device and are expected to be useful from the point of view of the rational design of such multifunctional molecular electronic devices.
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Palii A, Clemente-Juan JM, Rybakov A, Aldoshin S, Tsukerblat B. Toward multifunctional molecular cells for quantum cellular automata: exploitation of interconnected charge and spin degrees of freedom. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2021; 23:14511-14528. [PMID: 34190247 DOI: 10.1039/d1cp00444a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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We discuss the possibility of using mixed-valence (MV) dimers comprising paramagnetic metal ions as molecular cells for quantum cellular automata (QCA). Thus, we propose to combine the underlying idea behind the functionality of QCA of using the charge distributions to encode binary information with the additional functional options provided by the spin degrees of freedom. The multifunctional ("smart") cell is supposed to consist of multielectron MV dn-dn+1-type (1 ≤ n ≤ 8) dimers of transition metal ions as building blocks for composing bi-dimeric square planar cells for QCA. The theoretical model of such a cell involves the double exchange (DE), Heisenberg-Dirac-Van Vleck (HDVV) exchange, Coulomb repulsion between the two excess electrons belonging to different dimeric half-cells and also the vibronic coupling. Consideration is focused on the topical case in which the difference in Coulomb energies of the two excess electrons occupying nearest neighboring and distant positions significantly exceeds both the electron transfer integral and the vibronic energy. In this case the ground spin-state of the isolated square cell is shown to be the result of competition of the second-order DE producing a ferromagnetic effect and the HDVV exchange that is assumed to be antiferromagnetic. In order to reveal the functionality of the magnetic cells, the cell-cell response function is studied within the developed model. The interaction of the working cell with the polarized driver-cell is shown to produce an antiferromagnetic effect tending to suppress the ferromagnetic second-order DE. As a result, under some conditions the electric field of the driver cell is shown to force the working cell to exhibit spin-switching from the state with maximum dimeric spin values to that having minimal spin values.
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- Andrew Palii
- Laboratory of Molecular Magnetic Nanomaterials, Institute of Problems of Chemical Physics, Academician Semenov Avenue 1, Chernogolovka, Moscow Region 142432, Russian Federation.
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- Laboratory of Molecular Magnetic Nanomaterials, Institute of Problems of Chemical Physics, Academician Semenov Avenue 1, Chernogolovka, Moscow Region 142432, Russian Federation. and Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Institutskii Per. 9, Dolgoprudny, Moscow Region 141701, Russian Federation
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- Laboratory of Molecular Magnetic Nanomaterials, Institute of Problems of Chemical Physics, Academician Semenov Avenue 1, Chernogolovka, Moscow Region 142432, Russian Federation.
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- Department of Chemistry, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, 84105 Beer-Sheva, Israel.
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Groizard T, Kahlal S, Halet JF. Zwitterionic Mixed-Valence Species for the Design of Neutral Clocked Molecular Quantum-Dot Cellular Automata. Inorg Chem 2020; 59:15772-15779. [PMID: 33074686 DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.0c02207] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Mixed-valence compounds can be used for the design of molecular quantum-dot cellular automata (QCA). Here, we investigate the QCA properties of a three-dot "Y"-shaped functionalized zwitterionic neutral closo-carborane model 1-(3,5-{Cp(dHpe)Fe-C≡C-}2(C6H3))-10-Cp(dHpe)Fe-C≡C-closo-1-CB9H8 (1) (Cp = cyclopentadienyl (η5-C5H5) and dHpe = 1,2-bis(phosphino)ethane (H2PCH2CH2PH2)) as a neutral clocked molecular half-cell. DFT results clearly demonstrate that 1 can display simultaneously the two most basic properties necessary for clocked QCA operation, i.e., bistable switching behavior and clocked control. This is possible due to the three stable states (two active and one null) of 1, corresponding to occupation of each of the three iron-ethynyl groups by the positive charge. In addition, the proximal electronic bias effects can be overcome by the zwitterionic nature of 1, which could be imposed by external counterions, rendering these effects more predictable.
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- Thomas Groizard
- Univ Rennes, CNRS, Institut des Sciences Chimiques de Rennes (ISCR) - UMR 6226, F-35000 Rennes, France
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- Univ Rennes, CNRS, Institut des Sciences Chimiques de Rennes (ISCR) - UMR 6226, F-35000 Rennes, France
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- Univ Rennes, CNRS, Institut des Sciences Chimiques de Rennes (ISCR) - UMR 6226, F-35000 Rennes, France
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Tahara K, Abe M. Stimuli-responsive Mixed-valence Architectures: Synthetic Design and Interplay between Mobile and Introduced Charges. CHEM LETT 2020. [DOI: 10.1246/cl.200069] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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- Keishiro Tahara
- Department of Material Science, Graduate School of Material Science, University of Hyogo, 3-2-1 Kouto, Kamigori, Ako, Hyogo 678-1297, Japan
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- Department of Material Science, Graduate School of Material Science, University of Hyogo, 3-2-1 Kouto, Kamigori, Ako, Hyogo 678-1297, Japan
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Quantum dissipation driven by electron transfer within a single molecule investigated with atomic force microscopy. Nat Commun 2020; 11:1337. [PMID: 32165626 PMCID: PMC7067884 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-15054-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/22/2019] [Accepted: 02/17/2020] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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Intramolecular charge transfer processes play an important role in many biological, chemical and physical processes including photosynthesis, redox chemical reactions and electron transfer in molecular electronics. These charge transfer processes are frequently influenced by the dynamics of their molecular or atomic environments, and they are accompanied with energy dissipation into this environment. The detailed understanding of such processes is fundamental for their control and possible exploitation in future technological applications. Most of the experimental studies of the intramolecular charge transfer processes so far have been carried out using time-resolved optical spectroscopies on large molecular ensembles. This hampers detailed understanding of the charge transfer on the single molecular level. Here we build upon the recent progress in scanning probe microscopy, and demonstrate the control of mixed valence state. We report observation of single electron transfer between two ferrocene redox centers within a single molecule and the detection of energy dissipation associated with the single electron transfer. Here, the authors use atomic force microscopy under ultra-high vacuum conditions to study intramolecular single electron transfer within a single molecule. This allows them to investigate energy dissipation process related to the electron transfer as a function of temperature.
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Gendron F, Groizard T, Le Guennic B, Halet JF. Electronic Properties of Poly-Yne Carbon Chains and Derivatives with Transition Metal End-Groups. Eur J Inorg Chem 2020. [DOI: 10.1002/ejic.201901112] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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- Frédéric Gendron
- ISCR (Institut des Sciences Chimiques de Rennes); Univ Rennes, CNRS; UMR 6226, F -35000 Rennes France
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- ISCR (Institut des Sciences Chimiques de Rennes); Univ Rennes, CNRS; UMR 6226, F -35000 Rennes France
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- ISCR (Institut des Sciences Chimiques de Rennes); Univ Rennes, CNRS; UMR 6226, F -35000 Rennes France
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- ISCR (Institut des Sciences Chimiques de Rennes); Univ Rennes, CNRS; UMR 6226, F -35000 Rennes France
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Yan JF, Zhu GG, Yuan Y, Lin CX, Huang SP, Yuan YF. Carborane bridged ferrocenyl conjugated molecules: synthesis, structure, electrochemistry and photophysical properties. NEW J CHEM 2020. [DOI: 10.1039/d0nj00826e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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mono- and bis-carborane bridged ferrocenyl conjugated molecules 8–11 have been synthesized and systematically analyzed.
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- Jian-Feng Yan
- Key Laboratory of Molecule Synthesis and Function Discovery (Fujian Province University)
- Department of Chemistry
- Fuzhou University
- Fuzhou 350108
- People's Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Molecule Synthesis and Function Discovery (Fujian Province University)
- Department of Chemistry
- Fuzhou University
- Fuzhou 350108
- People's Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Molecule Synthesis and Function Discovery (Fujian Province University)
- Department of Chemistry
- Fuzhou University
- Fuzhou 350108
- People's Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Molecule Synthesis and Function Discovery (Fujian Province University)
- Department of Chemistry
- Fuzhou University
- Fuzhou 350108
- People's Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Molecule Synthesis and Function Discovery (Fujian Province University)
- Department of Chemistry
- Fuzhou University
- Fuzhou 350108
- People's Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Molecule Synthesis and Function Discovery (Fujian Province University)
- Department of Chemistry
- Fuzhou University
- Fuzhou 350108
- People's Republic of China
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- Jean-Pierre Launay
- CEMES-CNRS; Université de Toulouse; 29 rue Jeanne Marvig 31055 Toulouse France
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Tahara K, Terashita N, Tokunaga K, Yabumoto S, Kikuchi JI, Ozawa Y, Abe M. Zwitterionic Mixed Valence: Internalizing Counteranions into a Biferrocenium Framework toward Molecular Expression of Half-Cells in Quantum Cellular Automata. Chemistry 2019; 25:13728-13738. [PMID: 31376186 DOI: 10.1002/chem.201902840] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/20/2019] [Revised: 07/26/2019] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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Realization of molecular quantum cellular automata (QCA), a promising architecture for molecular computing through current-free processes, requires improved understanding and application of mixed-valence (MV) molecules. In this report, we present an electrostatic approach to creating MV subspecies through internalizing opposite charges in close proximity to MV ionic moieties. This approach is demonstrated by unsymmetrically attaching a charge-responsive boron substituent to a well-known organometallic MV complex, biferrocenium. Guest anions (CN- and F- ) bind to the Lewis acidic boron center, leading to unusual blue-shifts of the intervalence charge-transfer (IVCT) bands. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first reported example of a zwitterionic MV series in which the degree of positive charge delocalization can be varied by changing the bound anions, and serves to clarify the interplay between IVCT parameters. The key underlying factor is the variable zero-level energy difference in the MV states. This work provides new insight into imbuing MV molecules with external charge-responsiveness, a prerequisite of molecular QCA techniques.
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- Keishiro Tahara
- Department of Material Science, Graduate School of Material Science, University of Hyogo, 3-2-1, Kouto, Kamigori, Ako, Hyogo, 678-1297, Japan
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- Graduate School of Materials Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, 8916-5, Takayama, Ikoma, Nara, 630-0192, Japan
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- Division of Liberal Arts, Centre for Promotion of Higher Education, Kogakuin University, 2665-1, Nakano, Hachioji, Tokyo, 192-0015, Japan
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- Graduate School of Materials Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, 8916-5, Takayama, Ikoma, Nara, 630-0192, Japan
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- Graduate School of Materials Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, 8916-5, Takayama, Ikoma, Nara, 630-0192, Japan
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- Department of Material Science, Graduate School of Material Science, University of Hyogo, 3-2-1, Kouto, Kamigori, Ako, Hyogo, 678-1297, Japan
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- Department of Material Science, Graduate School of Material Science, University of Hyogo, 3-2-1, Kouto, Kamigori, Ako, Hyogo, 678-1297, Japan
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Tahara K, Koyama H, Fujitsuka M, Tokunaga K, Lei X, Majima T, Kikuchi JI, Ozawa Y, Abe M. Charge-Separated Mixed Valency in an Unsymmetrical Acceptor-Donor-Donor Triad Based on Diarylboryl and Triarylamine Units. J Org Chem 2019; 84:8910-8920. [PMID: 31072099 DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.9b00836] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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In this study, we report the generation of new mixed-valence (MV) subspecies with charge-separated (CS) characters from an unsymmetrical acceptor-donor-donor (A-D-D) triad. The triad was synthesized by attaching a dimesitylboryl group (A) to a D-D conjugate that consisted of triarylamine (NAr3) units. The MV radical cation, obtained by chemical oxidation of the triad, exhibited a strong intervalence charge transfer (IVCT) absorption derived from the bis(NAr3)•+ moiety in the near-IR region. The charge-separated MV (CSMV) state, obtained by photoexcitation of the triad, caused a blue shift in IVCT energy in the femtosecond transient absorption spectra, reflecting a bias of positive charge distributions to the D end site. This resulted from increased electron density at the A site and restructuring of the central D site from NAr3 to NAr2 sites. Interestingly, any shift in the IVCT energy that was caused by the polarity of the solvent was minimal, reflecting the unique characteristics of the CSMV state. These findings represent the first detailed analysis of the CSMV state, including a comparison with conventional MV states. Therefore, this work provides new insights into counterion-free MV systems and their applications in molecular devices.
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- Keishiro Tahara
- Department of Material Science and Research Center for New Functional Materials, Graduate School of Material Science , University of Hyogo , 3-2-1, Kouto , Kamigori, Ako , Hyogo 678-1297 , Japan
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- Graduate School of Materials Science , Nara Institute of Science and Technology , 8916-5, Takayama , Ikoma, Nara 630-0192 , Japan
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- Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research (SANKEN) , Osaka University , 8-1, Mihogaoka , Ibaraki , Osaka 567-0047 , Japan
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- Division of Liberal Arts, Centre for Promotion of Higher Education , Kogakuin University , 2665-1, Nakano , Hachioji, Tokyo 192-0015 , Japan
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- Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research (SANKEN) , Osaka University , 8-1, Mihogaoka , Ibaraki , Osaka 567-0047 , Japan
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- Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research (SANKEN) , Osaka University , 8-1, Mihogaoka , Ibaraki , Osaka 567-0047 , Japan
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- Graduate School of Materials Science , Nara Institute of Science and Technology , 8916-5, Takayama , Ikoma, Nara 630-0192 , Japan
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- Department of Material Science and Research Center for New Functional Materials, Graduate School of Material Science , University of Hyogo , 3-2-1, Kouto , Kamigori, Ako , Hyogo 678-1297 , Japan
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- Department of Material Science and Research Center for New Functional Materials, Graduate School of Material Science , University of Hyogo , 3-2-1, Kouto , Kamigori, Ako , Hyogo 678-1297 , Japan
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Pintus AM, Gabrieli A, Pazzona FG, Pireddu G, Demontis P. Molecular QCA embedding in microporous materials. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2019; 21:7879-7884. [PMID: 30931467 DOI: 10.1039/c9cp00832b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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We propose an environment for information encoding and transmission via a nanoconfined molecular Quantum Dot Cellular Automata (QCA) wire, composed of a single row of head-to-tail interacting 2-dots molecular switches. While most of the research in the field refers to dots-bearing molecules bound on some type of surface, forming a bidimensional array of square cells capable of performing QCA typical functions, we propose here to embed the information bearing elements within the channels of a microporous matrix. In this way molecules would self-assemble in a row as a consequence of adsorption inside the pores of the material, forming an encased wire, with the crystalline environment giving stability and protection to the structure. DFT calculations on a diferrocenyl carborane, previously proposed and synthesized [J. A. Christie, R. P. Forrest, S. A. Corcelli, N. A. Wasio, R. C. Quardokus, R. Brown, S. A. Kandel, Y. Lu, C. S. Lent and K. W. Henderson, Angew. Chem., Int. Ed., 2015, 54, 15448], were performed both in vacuum and inside the channels of zeolite ITQ-51, indicating that information encoding and transmission is possible within the nanoconfined environment.
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- Alberto M Pintus
- Universitá degli Studi di Sassari, V. Vienna 2, 07100 Sassari, Italy.
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Blair EP, Tóth G, Lent CS. Entanglement loss in molecular quantum-dot qubits due to interaction with the environment. JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. CONDENSED MATTER : AN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS JOURNAL 2018; 30:195602. [PMID: 29578454 DOI: 10.1088/1361-648x/aab98d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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We study quantum entanglement loss due to environmental interaction in a condensed matter system with a complex geometry relevant to recent proposals for computing with single electrons at the nanoscale. We consider a system consisting of two qubits, each realized by an electron in a double quantum dot, which are initially in an entangled Bell state. The qubits are widely separated and each interacts with its own environment. The environment for each is modeled by surrounding double quantum dots placed at random positions with random orientations. We calculate the unitary evolution of the joint system and environment. The global state remains pure throughout. We examine the time dependence of the expectation value of the bipartite Clauser-Horne-Shimony-Holt (CHSH) and Brukner-Paunković-Rudolph-Vedral (BPRV) Bell operators and explore the emergence of correlations consistent with local realism. Though the details of this transition depend on the specific environmental geometry, we show how the results can be mapped on to a universal behavior with appropriate scaling. We determine the relevant disentanglement times based on realistic physical parameters for molecular double-dots.
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- Enrique P Blair
- Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Baylor University, Waco, TX, United States of America
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A substantially new synthesis of dicarbollides based on the dicarbon insertion of alkynes into the nine-vertex 4-Et3N-arachno-B9H13 framework is reported.
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- Oleg L. Tok
- Institute of Inorganic Chemistry
- Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
- Czech Republic
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- Institute of Inorganic Chemistry
- Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
- Czech Republic
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- Department of General and Inorganic Chemistry
- Faculty of Chemical Technology
- University of Pardubice
- 532 10 Pardubice
- Czech Republic
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- Department of General and Inorganic Chemistry
- Faculty of Chemical Technology
- University of Pardubice
- 532 10 Pardubice
- Czech Republic
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- Institute of Inorganic Chemistry
- Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
- Czech Republic
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Hazari AS, Indra A, Lahiri GK. Mixed valency in ligand-bridged diruthenium frameworks: divergences and perspectives. RSC Adv 2018; 8:28895-28908. [PMID: 35547993 PMCID: PMC9084559 DOI: 10.1039/c8ra03206h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/14/2018] [Accepted: 08/01/2018] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Emerging fundamental issues involving intramolecular electron transfer at the mixed valent diruthenium frameworks and its application prospects have been highlighted.
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- Department of Chemistry
- Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University)
- Varanasi
- India
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- Department of Chemistry
- Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
- Mumbai-400076
- India
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Dai M, Wang W, Wang P, Iqbal MZ, Annabi N, Amin N. Realization of tunable artificial synapse and memory based on amorphous oxide semiconductor transistor. Sci Rep 2017; 7:10997. [PMID: 28887449 PMCID: PMC5591224 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-04641-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/13/2017] [Accepted: 05/15/2017] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Recently, advanced designs and materials emerge to study biologically inspired neuromorphic circuit, such as oxide semiconductor devices. The existence of mobile ions in the oxide semiconductors could be somewhat regarded to be similar with the case of the ions movements among the neurons and synapses in the brain. Most of the previous studies focus on the spike time, pulse number and material species: however, a quantitative modeling is still needed to study the voltage dependence of the relaxation process of synaptic devices. Here, the gate pulse stimulated currents of oxide semiconductor devices have been employed to mimic and investigate artificial synapses functions. The modeling for relaxation process of important synaptic behaviors, excitatory post-synaptic current (EPSC), has been updated as a stretched-exponential function with voltage factors in a more quantitative way. This quantitative modeling investigation of representative synaptic transmission bias impacts would help to better simulate, realize and thus control neuromorphic computing.
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- Mingzhi Dai
- Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ningbo, 315201, China.
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- Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ningbo, 315201, China
- Institute of Circuits and Systems, Ningbo University, Ningbo, 315211, China
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- Institute of Circuits and Systems, Ningbo University, Ningbo, 315211, China
- College of Physics and Electronic Information Engineering, Wenzhou University, Wenzhou, 325035, China
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- GIK Institute of Engineering Sciences & Technology, Topi 23640, Khyber, Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, USA
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- Government College University Faisalabad, Faisalabad, Pakistan
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Erickson NR, Holstrom CD, Rhoda HM, Rohde GT, Zatsikha YV, Galloni P, Nemykin VN. Tuning Electron-Transfer Properties in 5,10,15,20-Tetra(1′-hexanoylferrocenyl)porphyrins as Prospective Systems for Quantum Cellular Automata and Platforms for Four-Bit Information Storage. Inorg Chem 2017; 56:4717-4728. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.7b00397] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Nathan R. Erickson
- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth, Minnesota 55812, United States
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- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth, Minnesota 55812, United States
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- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth, Minnesota 55812, United States
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- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth, Minnesota 55812, United States
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- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth, Minnesota 55812, United States
- Department
of Chemistry, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB R3T 2N2, Canada
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- Dipartimento
di Scienze e Tecnologie Chimiche, Università di Roma “Tor Vergata”, via Della Ricerca Scientifica, 00133 Rome, Italy
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- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth, Minnesota 55812, United States
- Department
of Chemistry, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB R3T 2N2, Canada
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Blair EP, Corcelli SA, Lent CS. Electric-field-driven electron-transfer in mixed-valence molecules. J Chem Phys 2016; 145:014307. [DOI: 10.1063/1.4955113] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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- Enrique P. Blair
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Baylor University, Waco, Texas 76798, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556, USA
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- Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556, USA
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Wang Z, Jiang P, Wang T, Moxey GJ, Cifuentes MP, Zhang C, Humphrey MG. Blue-shifted emission and enhanced quantum efficiency via π-bridge elongation in carbazole–carborane dyads. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2016; 18:15719-26. [DOI: 10.1039/c6cp02870e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Carbazole–carborane linear and V-shaped dyads display unusual blue-shifts in charge-transfer (CT) emission on π-system lengthening; the linear dyads luminesce via a combination of local excited and CT emission, with quantum efficiencies up to 86% in solution.
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- Zhaojin Wang
- School of Chemical and Material Engineering
- Jiangnan University
- Wuxi 214122
- China
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- School of Chemical and Material Engineering
- Jiangnan University
- Wuxi 214122
- China
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- School of Chemical and Material Engineering
- Jiangnan University
- Wuxi 214122
- China
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- Research School of Chemistry
- Australian National University
- Canberra
- Australia
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- School of Chemical and Material Engineering
- Jiangnan University
- Wuxi 214122
- China
- Research School of Chemistry
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- School of Chemical and Material Engineering
- Jiangnan University
- Wuxi 214122
- China
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- School of Chemical and Material Engineering
- Jiangnan University
- Wuxi 214122
- China
- Research School of Chemistry
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