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Li Z, Li Y, Yin C. Manipulating Molecular Self-Assembly Process at the Solid-Liquid Interface Probed by Scanning Tunneling Microscopy. Polymers (Basel) 2023; 15:4176. [PMID: 37896420 PMCID: PMC10610993 DOI: 10.3390/polym15204176] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/07/2023] [Revised: 10/16/2023] [Accepted: 10/18/2023] [Indexed: 10/29/2023] Open
Abstract
The phenomenon of ordered self-assembly on solid substrates is a topic of interest in both fundamental surface science research and its applications in nanotechnology. The regulation and control of two-dimensional (2D) self-assembled supra-molecular structures on surfaces have been realized through applying external stimuli. By utilizing scanning tunneling microscopy (STM), researchers can investigate the detailed phase transition process of self-assembled monolayers (SAMs), providing insight into the interplay between intermolecular weak interactions and substrate-molecule interactions, which govern the formation of molecular self-assembly. This review will discuss the structural transition of self-assembly probed by STM in response to external stimuli and provide state-of-the-art methods such as tip-induced confinement for the alignment of SAM domains and selective chirality. Finally, we discuss the challenges and opportunities in the field of self-assembly and STM.
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- School of Chemical Engineering, Anhui University of Science and Technology, Huainan 232001, China;
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- School of Chemical Engineering, Anhui University of Science and Technology, Huainan 232001, China;
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Janasik D, Jasiński K, Węglarz W, Nemec I, Jewula P, Krawczyk T. Ratiometric pH-Responsive 19F Magnetic Resonance Imaging Contrast Agents Based on Hydrazone Switches. Anal Chem 2022; 94:3427-3431. [PMID: 35156816 PMCID: PMC8892427 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.1c04978] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/16/2021] [Accepted: 02/10/2022] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Hydrazone-based molecular switches serve as efficient ratiometric pH-sensitive agents that can be tracked with 19F NMR/MRI and 1H NMR. Structural changes induced between pH 3 and 4 lead to signal appearance and disappearance at 1H and 19F NMR spectra allowing ratiometric pH measurements. The most pronounced are resonances of the CF3 group shifted by 1.8 ppm with 19F NMR and a hydrazone proton shifted by 2 ppm with 1H NMR.
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- Dawid Janasik
- Department
of Chemical Organic Technology and Petrochemistry, Silesian University of Technology Krzywoustego 4,44-100 Gliwice, Poland
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- Institute
of Nuclear Physics Polish Academy of Sciences, 31-342 Krakow, Poland
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- Central
European Institute of Technology Brno University of Technology, Purkyňova 123, 612-00 Brno, Czech
Republic
- Department
of Inorganic Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Palacký University 17. Listopadu 1192/12, 771 46 Olomouc, Czech Republic
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- Central
European Institute of Technology Brno University of Technology, Purkyňova 123, 612-00 Brno, Czech
Republic
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- Department
of Chemical Organic Technology and Petrochemistry, Silesian University of Technology Krzywoustego 4,44-100 Gliwice, Poland
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Dai H, Huang W, Zeng Q. Temperature-induced self-assembly transformation: an effective external stimulus on 2D supramolecular structures. NEW J CHEM 2022. [DOI: 10.1039/d2nj01139e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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With the development of nano-characterization technology, imaging and controlling of two-dimension (2D) self-assembled supramolecular structures on the surface have drawn increasing attention in nanoscience and technology. As an important influence...
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Xin N, Hu C, Al Sabea H, Zhang M, Zhou C, Meng L, Jia C, Gong Y, Li Y, Ke G, He X, Selvanathan P, Norel L, Ratner MA, Liu Z, Xiao S, Rigaut S, Guo H, Guo X. Tunable Symmetry-Breaking-Induced Dual Functions in Stable and Photoswitched Single-Molecule Junctions. J Am Chem Soc 2021; 143:20811-20817. [PMID: 34846141 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.1c08997] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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The aim of molecular electronics is to miniaturize active electronic devices and ultimately construct single-molecule nanocircuits using molecules with diverse structures featuring various functions, which is extremely challenging. Here, we realize a gate-controlled rectifying function (the on/off ratio reaches ∼60) and a high-performance field effect (maximum on/off ratio >100) simultaneously in an initially symmetric single-molecule photoswitch comprising a dinuclear ruthenium-diarylethene (Ru-DAE) complex sandwiched covalently between graphene electrodes. Both experimental and theoretical results consistently demonstrate that the initially degenerated frontier molecular orbitals localized at each Ru fragment in the open-ring Ru-DAE molecule can be tuned separately and shift asymmetrically under gate electric fields. This symmetric orbital shifting (AOS) lifts the degeneracy and breaks the molecular symmetry, which is not only essential to achieve a diode-like behavior with tunable rectification ratio and controlled polarity, but also enhances the field-effect on/off ratio at the rectification direction. In addition, this gate-controlled symmetry-breaking effect can be switched on/off by isomerizing the DAE unit between its open-ring and closed-ring forms with light stimulus. This new scheme offers a general and efficient strategy to build high-performance multifunctional molecular nanocircuits.
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- Na Xin
- State Key Laboratory for Structural Chemistry of Unstable and Stable Species, Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, National Biomedical Imaging Center, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, P. R. China
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- Center for the Physics of Materials and Department of Physics, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec H3A 2T8, Canada
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- Univ Rennes, CNRS, ISCR (Institut des Sciences Chimiques de Rennes)-UMR 6226, Rennes F-35000, France
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- The Education Ministry Key Laboratory of Resource Chemistry, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Rare Earth Functional Materials, College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai 200234, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory for Structural Chemistry of Unstable and Stable Species, Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, National Biomedical Imaging Center, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, P. R. China
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- Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, P. R. China
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- Center of Single-Molecule Sciences, Frontiers Science Center for New Organic Matter, Institute of Modern Optics, College of Electronic Information and Optical Engineering, Nankai University, 38 Tongyan Road, Jinnan District, Tianjin 300350, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory for Structural Chemistry of Unstable and Stable Species, Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, National Biomedical Imaging Center, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory for Structural Chemistry of Unstable and Stable Species, Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, National Biomedical Imaging Center, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory for Structural Chemistry of Unstable and Stable Species, Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, National Biomedical Imaging Center, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, P. R. China
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- Univ Rennes, CNRS, ISCR (Institut des Sciences Chimiques de Rennes)-UMR 6226, Rennes F-35000, France
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- Univ Rennes, CNRS, ISCR (Institut des Sciences Chimiques de Rennes)-UMR 6226, Rennes F-35000, France
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- Univ Rennes, CNRS, ISCR (Institut des Sciences Chimiques de Rennes)-UMR 6226, Rennes F-35000, France
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- Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States
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- State Key Laboratory for Structural Chemistry of Unstable and Stable Species, Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, National Biomedical Imaging Center, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, P. R. China
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- The Education Ministry Key Laboratory of Resource Chemistry, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Rare Earth Functional Materials, College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai 200234, P. R. China
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- Univ Rennes, CNRS, ISCR (Institut des Sciences Chimiques de Rennes)-UMR 6226, Rennes F-35000, France
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- Center for the Physics of Materials and Department of Physics, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec H3A 2T8, Canada
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- State Key Laboratory for Structural Chemistry of Unstable and Stable Species, Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, National Biomedical Imaging Center, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, P. R. China.,Center of Single-Molecule Sciences, Frontiers Science Center for New Organic Matter, Institute of Modern Optics, College of Electronic Information and Optical Engineering, Nankai University, 38 Tongyan Road, Jinnan District, Tianjin 300350, P. R. China
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In nature, light is harvested by photoactive proteins to drive
a range of biological processes, including photosynthesis, phototaxis,
vision, and ultimately life. Bacteriorhodopsin, for example, is a
protein embedded within archaeal cell membranes that binds the chromophore
retinal within its hydrophobic pocket. Exposure to light triggers
regioselective photoisomerization of the confined retinal, which in
turn initiates a cascade of conformational changes within the protein,
triggering proton flux against the concentration gradient, providing
the microorganisms with the energy to live. We are inspired by these
functions in nature to harness light energy using synthetic photoswitches
under confinement. Like retinal, synthetic photoswitches require some
degree of conformational flexibility to isomerize. In nature, the
conformational change associated with retinal isomerization is accommodated
by the structural flexibility of the opsin host, yet it results in
steric communication between the chromophore and the protein. Similarly,
we strive to design systems wherein isomerization of confined photoswitches
results in steric communication between a photoswitch and its confining
environment. To achieve this aim, a balance must be struck between
molecular crowding and conformational freedom under confinement: too
much crowding prevents switching, whereas too much freedom resembles
switching of isolated molecules in solution, preventing communication. In this Account, we discuss five classes of synthetic light-switchable
compounds—diarylethenes, anthracenes, azobenzenes, spiropyrans,
and donor–acceptor Stenhouse adducts—comparing their
behaviors under confinement and in solution. The environments employed
to confine these photoswitches are diverse, ranging from planar surfaces
to nanosized cavities within coordination cages, nanoporous frameworks,
and nanoparticle aggregates. The trends that emerge are primarily
dependent on the nature of the photoswitch and not on the material
used for confinement. In general, we find that photoswitches requiring
less conformational freedom for switching are, as expected, more straightforward
to isomerize reversibly under confinement. Because these compounds
undergo only small structural changes upon isomerization, however,
switching does not propagate into communication with their environment.
Conversely, photoswitches that require more conformational freedom
are more challenging to switch under confinement but also can influence
system-wide behavior. Although we are primarily interested in
the effects of geometric
constraints on photoswitching under confinement, additional effects
inevitably emerge when a compound is removed from solution and placed
within a new, more crowded environment. For instance, we have found
that compounds that convert to zwitterionic isomers upon light irradiation
often experience stabilization of these forms under confinement. This
effect results from the mutual stabilization of zwitterions that are
brought into close proximity on surfaces or within cavities. Furthermore,
photoswitches can experience preorganization under confinement, influencing
the selectivity and efficiency of their photoreactions. Because intermolecular
interactions arising from confinement cannot be considered independently
from the effects of geometric constraints, we describe all confinement
effects concurrently throughout this Account.
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- Angela B. Grommet
- Department of Organic Chemistry, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel
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- Department of Organic Chemistry, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel
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- Department of Organic Chemistry, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel
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Dela Cruz Calupitan JP, Galangau O, Nakashima T, Kawai T, Rapenne G. Photochromic Diarylethenes Designed for Surface Deposition: From Self-Assembled Monolayers to Single Molecules. Chempluschem 2020; 84:564-577. [PMID: 31944023 DOI: 10.1002/cplu.201800640] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/10/2018] [Revised: 02/06/2019] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
Abstract
The efficient switching that can occur between two stable isomers of diarylethenes makes them particularly promising targets for opto- and molecular electronics. To examine these classes of molecules for electronics applications, they have been subjected to a series of scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) experiments, which are the focus of this Review. A brief introduction to the chemical design of diarylethenes in terms of their switching capabilities along with the basics of STM are presented. Next, initial STM studies on these compounds under ambient conditions are discussed. An overview of how molecular design affects the isomerization and self-assembly of diarylethenes at the solid-liquid interface as investigated by STM is then presented, as well as single-molecule studies under ultrahigh vacuum. The last section presents further prospects for molecular design in the field.
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- Jan Patrick Dela Cruz Calupitan
- Division of Materials Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology 8916-5 Takayama-cho, Ikoma, Nara, 630-0192, Japan.,International Collaborative Laboratory for Supraphotoactive Systems, NAIST-CEMES, 29 rue Marvig, 31055, Toulouse, France.,Université de Toulouse CNRS, 29 rue Marvig, 31055, Toulouse, France
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- Division of Materials Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology 8916-5 Takayama-cho, Ikoma, Nara, 630-0192, Japan.,International Collaborative Laboratory for Supraphotoactive Systems, NAIST-CEMES, 29 rue Marvig, 31055, Toulouse, France
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- Division of Materials Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology 8916-5 Takayama-cho, Ikoma, Nara, 630-0192, Japan
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- Division of Materials Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology 8916-5 Takayama-cho, Ikoma, Nara, 630-0192, Japan.,International Collaborative Laboratory for Supraphotoactive Systems, NAIST-CEMES, 29 rue Marvig, 31055, Toulouse, France
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- Division of Materials Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology 8916-5 Takayama-cho, Ikoma, Nara, 630-0192, Japan.,International Collaborative Laboratory for Supraphotoactive Systems, NAIST-CEMES, 29 rue Marvig, 31055, Toulouse, France.,Université de Toulouse CNRS, 29 rue Marvig, 31055, Toulouse, France
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Imen H, Xiaonan S, Denis F, Frédéric L, Jean-Christophe L. Multi-functional switches of ditopic ligands with azobenzene central bridges at a molecular scale. NANOSCALE 2019; 11:23042-23048. [PMID: 31774086 DOI: 10.1039/c9nr06350a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Ligands are designed to have ditopic bipyridine terminal groups linked through photochromic azobenzene central units, which exhibit multi-switchable properties by different external stimuli. The molecule can switch between cis-and trans-conformations at their bipyridine terminal groups upon protonation and at their central azobenzene units upon irradiation of photons. As a result, the system shows four different isomeric states: cis-TRANS, trans-TRANS, cis-CIS and trans-CIS. The four conformers are switched and are visualized by scanning tunneling microscopy at the solid-liquid interface, which gives a direct demonstration of the multi-functional switches at a molecular level.
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- Hnid Imen
- Université de Paris, ITODYS, CNRS, UMR 7086, 15 rue J-A de Baïf, F-75013 Paris, France.
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- Université de Paris, ITODYS, CNRS, UMR 7086, 15 rue J-A de Baïf, F-75013 Paris, France.
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- Université de Paris, ITODYS, CNRS, UMR 7086, 15 rue J-A de Baïf, F-75013 Paris, France. and Université Lyon, ENS de Lyon, CNRS UMR 5182, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Laboratoire de Chimie, F69342, Lyon, France
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- Université de Paris, ITODYS, CNRS, UMR 7086, 15 rue J-A de Baïf, F-75013 Paris, France.
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Zheng LQ, Yang S, Lan J, Gyr L, Goubert G, Qian H, Aprahamian I, Zenobi R. Solution Phase and Surface Photoisomerization of a Hydrazone Switch with a Long Thermal Half-Life. J Am Chem Soc 2019; 141:17637-17645. [DOI: 10.1021/jacs.9b07057] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Li-Qing Zheng
- Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zurich, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 3, Zurich CH 8093, Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire 03755, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, Zurich CH 8057, Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zurich, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 3, Zurich CH 8093, Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zurich, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 3, Zurich CH 8093, Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire 03755, United States
- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana−Champaign, 505 S Mathews Avenue, Urbana, Illinois, 61801, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire 03755, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zurich, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 3, Zurich CH 8093, Switzerland
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Nishitani N, Hirose T, Matsuda K. Self-assembly of photochromic diarylethene-peptide conjugates stabilized by β-sheet formation at the liquid/graphite interface. Chem Commun (Camb) 2019; 55:5099-5102. [PMID: 30968929 DOI: 10.1039/c9cc02093d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Two-dimensional (2-D) self-assembly of diarylethene (DAE)-peptide conjugates at the octanoic acid/graphite interface was investigated by scanning tunnelling microscopy (STM). The open-ring isomer of a DAE-peptide conjugate formed a stable 2-D molecular assembly with an antiparallel β-sheet structure. Quantitative analysis of surface coverage depending on concentration revealed a stronger stabilization effect of the oligopeptide than that of the alkyl group with a similar side chain length.
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- Nobuhiko Nishitani
- Department of Synthetic Chemistry and Biological Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University, Katsura, Nishikyo-ku, Kyoto 615-8510, Japan.
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Frath D, Yokoyama S, Hirose T, Matsuda K. Photoresponsive supramolecular self-assemblies at the liquid/solid interface. JOURNAL OF PHOTOCHEMISTRY AND PHOTOBIOLOGY C: PHOTOCHEMISTRY REVIEWS 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jphotochemrev.2017.12.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Garah ME, Borré E, Ciesielski A, Dianat A, Gutierrez R, Cuniberti G, Bellemin-Laponnaz S, Mauro M, Samorì P. Light-Induced Contraction/Expansion of 1D Photoswitchable Metallopolymer Monitored at the Solid-Liquid Interface. SMALL (WEINHEIM AN DER BERGSTRASSE, GERMANY) 2017; 13:1701790. [PMID: 28841774 DOI: 10.1002/smll.201701790] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/29/2017] [Revised: 07/19/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
Abstract
The use of a bottom-up approach to the fabrication of nanopatterned functional surfaces, which are capable to respond to external stimuli, is of great current interest. Herein, the preparation of light-responsive, linear supramolecular metallopolymers constituted by the ideally infinite repetition of a ditopic ligand bearing an azoaryl moiety and Co(II) coordination nodes is described. The supramolecular polymerization process is followed by optical spectroscopy in dimethylformamide solution. Noteworthy, a submolecularly resolved scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) study of the in situ reversible trans-to-cis photoisomerization of a photoswitchable metallopolymer that self-assembles into 2D crystalline patterns onto a highly oriented pyrolytic graphite surface is achieved for the first time. The STM analysis of the nanopatterned surfaces is corroborated by modeling the physisorbed species onto a graphene slab before and after irradiation by means of density functional theory calculation. Significantly, switching of the monolayers consisting of supramolecular Co(II) metallopolymer bearing trans-azoaryl units to a novel pattern based on cis isomers can be triggered by UV light and reversed back to the trans conformer by using visible light, thereby restoring the trans-based supramolecular 2D packing. These findings represent a step forward toward the design and preparation of photoresponsive "smart" surfaces organized with an atomic precision.
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- Mohamed El Garah
- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, Institut de Science et d'Ingénierie Supramoléculaires (ISIS), 8 Allée Gaspard Monge, 67000, Strasbourg, France
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- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, Institut de Science et d'Ingénierie Supramoléculaires (ISIS), 8 Allée Gaspard Monge, 67000, Strasbourg, France
- Département des Matériaux Organiques, Institut de Physique et Chimie des Matériaux de Strasbourg, Université de Strasbourg, CNRS UMR 7504, 23 rue du Loess, 67034, Strasbourg, France
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- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, Institut de Science et d'Ingénierie Supramoléculaires (ISIS), 8 Allée Gaspard Monge, 67000, Strasbourg, France
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- Institute for Materials Science and Max Bergmann Center of Biomaterials, Dresden University of Technology, 01062, Dresden, Germany
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- Institute for Materials Science and Max Bergmann Center of Biomaterials, Dresden University of Technology, 01062, Dresden, Germany
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- Institute for Materials Science and Max Bergmann Center of Biomaterials, Dresden University of Technology, 01062, Dresden, Germany
- Center for Advancing Electronics Dresden, Dresden Center for Computational Materials Science, Dresden University of Technology, 01062, Dresden, Germany
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- Département des Matériaux Organiques, Institut de Physique et Chimie des Matériaux de Strasbourg, Université de Strasbourg, CNRS UMR 7504, 23 rue du Loess, 67034, Strasbourg, France
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- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, Institut de Science et d'Ingénierie Supramoléculaires (ISIS), 8 Allée Gaspard Monge, 67000, Strasbourg, France
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- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, Institut de Science et d'Ingénierie Supramoléculaires (ISIS), 8 Allée Gaspard Monge, 67000, Strasbourg, France
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Feringa BL. The Art of Building Small: From Molecular Switches to Motors (Nobel Lecture). Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2017; 56:11060-11078. [PMID: 28851050 DOI: 10.1002/anie.201702979] [Citation(s) in RCA: 457] [Impact Index Per Article: 65.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/22/2017] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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A journey into the nano-world: The ability to design, use and control motor-like functions at the molecular level sets the stage for numerous dynamic molecular systems. In his Nobel Lecture, B. L. Feringa describes the evolution of the field of molecular motors and explains how to program and control molecules by incorporating responsive and adaptive properties.
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- Ben L Feringa
- Stratingh Institute for Chemistry, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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Feringa BL. Die Kunst, klein zu bauen: von molekularen Schaltern bis zu Motoren (Nobel-Aufsatz). Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2017. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.201702979] [Citation(s) in RCA: 110] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Ben L. Feringa
- Stratingh Institute for Chemistry; University of Groningen; Groningen Niederlande
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Mulas A, He X, Hervault YM, Norel L, Rigaut S, Lagrost C. Dual-Responsive Molecular Switches Based on Dithienylethene-RuII
Organometallics in Self-Assembled Monolayers Operating at Low Voltage. Chemistry 2017; 23:10205-10214. [DOI: 10.1002/chem.201701903] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/28/2017] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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- Andrea Mulas
- Institut des Sciences Chimiques de Rennes, UMR 6226; CNRS-Université de Rennes 1; Campus de Beaulieu 35042 Rennes Cedex France
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- Institut des Sciences Chimiques de Rennes, UMR 6226; CNRS-Université de Rennes 1; Campus de Beaulieu 35042 Rennes Cedex France
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- Institut des Sciences Chimiques de Rennes, UMR 6226; CNRS-Université de Rennes 1; Campus de Beaulieu 35042 Rennes Cedex France
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- Institut des Sciences Chimiques de Rennes, UMR 6226; CNRS-Université de Rennes 1; Campus de Beaulieu 35042 Rennes Cedex France
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- Institut des Sciences Chimiques de Rennes, UMR 6226; CNRS-Université de Rennes 1; Campus de Beaulieu 35042 Rennes Cedex France
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- Institut des Sciences Chimiques de Rennes, UMR 6226; CNRS-Université de Rennes 1; Campus de Beaulieu 35042 Rennes Cedex France
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Snegir S, Khodko A, Sysoiev D, Lacaze E, Pluchery O, Huhn T. Optical properties of gold nanoparticles decorated with furan-based diarylethene photochromic molecules. J Photochem Photobiol A Chem 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jphotochem.2017.04.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Liu Z, Ren S, Guo X. Switching Effects in Molecular Electronic Devices. Top Curr Chem (Cham) 2017; 375:56. [PMID: 28493206 DOI: 10.1007/s41061-017-0144-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/09/2016] [Accepted: 04/25/2017] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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The creation of molecular electronic switches by using smart molecules is of great importance to the field of molecular electronics. This requires a fundamental understanding of the intrinsic electron transport mechanisms, which depend on several factors including the charge transport pathway, the molecule-electrode coupling strength, the energy of the molecular frontier orbitals, and the electron spin state. On the basis of significant progresses achieved in both experiments and theory over the past decade, in this review article we focus on new insights into the design and fabrication of different molecular switches and the corresponding switching effects, which is crucial to the development of molecular electronics. We summarize the strategies developed for single-molecule device fabrication and the mechanism of these switching effects. These analyses should be valuable for deeply understanding the switching effects in molecular electronic devices.
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- Zihao Liu
- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, State Key Laboratory for Structural Chemistry of Unstable and Stable Species, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, People's Republic of China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, State Key Laboratory for Structural Chemistry of Unstable and Stable Species, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, People's Republic of China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, State Key Laboratory for Structural Chemistry of Unstable and Stable Species, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, People's Republic of China.
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Cinchetti M, Dediu VA, Hueso LE. Activating the molecular spinterface. NATURE MATERIALS 2017; 16:507-515. [PMID: 28439116 DOI: 10.1038/nmat4902] [Citation(s) in RCA: 140] [Impact Index Per Article: 20.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/10/2017] [Accepted: 03/23/2017] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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The miniaturization trend in the semiconductor industry has led to the understanding that interfacial properties are crucial for device behaviour. Spintronics has not been alien to this trend, and phenomena such as preferential spin tunnelling, the spin-to-charge conversion due to the Rashba-Edelstein effect and the spin-momentum locking at the surface of topological insulators have arisen mainly from emergent interfacial properties, rather than the bulk of the constituent materials. In this Perspective we explore inorganic/molecular interfaces by looking closely at both sides of the interface. We describe recent developments and discuss the interface as an ideal platform for creating new spin effects. Finally, we outline possible technologies that can be generated thanks to the unique active tunability of molecular spinterfaces.
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- Mirko Cinchetti
- Experimentelle Physik VI, Technische Universität Dortmund, 44221 Dortmund, Germany
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- Istituto per lo Studio dei Materiali Nanostrutturati CNRISMN, 40129 Bologna, Italy
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- CIC nanoGUNE, 20018 San Sebastian, Spain
- IKERBASQUE, Basque Foundation for Science, 48013 Bilbao, Spain
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Reecht G, Lotze C, Sysoiev D, Huhn T, Franke K. Visualizing the Role of Molecular Orbitals in Charge Transport through Individual Diarylethene Isomers. ACS NANO 2016; 10:10555-10562. [PMID: 27775886 PMCID: PMC5135228 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.6b06559] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/28/2016] [Accepted: 10/24/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Diarylethene molecules are prototype molecular switches with their two isomeric forms exhibiting strikingly different conductance, while maintaining similar length. We employed low-temperature scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) to resolve the energy and the spatial extend of the molecular orbitals of the open and closed isomers when lying on a Au(111) surface. We find an intriguing difference in the extension of the respective HOMOs and a peculiar energy splitting of the formerly degenerate LUMO of the open isomer. We then lift the two isomers with the tip of the STM and measure the current through the individual molecules. By a simple analytical model of the transport, we show that the previously determined orbital characteristics are essential ingredients for the complete understanding of the transport properties. We also succeeded in switching the suspended molecules by the current, while switching the ones which are in direct contact to the surface occurs nonlocally with the help of the electric field of the tip.
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- Gaël Reecht
- Institut
für Experimentalphysik, Freie Universität
Berlin, Arnimallee 14, Berlin 14195, Germany
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- Institut
für Experimentalphysik, Freie Universität
Berlin, Arnimallee 14, Berlin 14195, Germany
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- Fachbereich
Chemie, Universität Konstanz, Universitätsstraße 10, Konstanz 78457, Germany
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- Fachbereich
Chemie, Universität Konstanz, Universitätsstraße 10, Konstanz 78457, Germany
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J. Franke
- Institut
für Experimentalphysik, Freie Universität
Berlin, Arnimallee 14, Berlin 14195, Germany
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XU H, WANG R, FAN C, LIU G, PU S. Synthesis and photochromism of new asymmetrical diarylethenes with a variable heteroaryl ring and a quinoline unit. Turk J Chem 2016. [DOI: 10.3906/kim-1502-11] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022] Open
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Frath D, Sakano T, Imaizumi Y, Yokoyama S, Hirose T, Matsuda K. Diarylethene Self-Assembled Monolayers: Cocrystallization and Mixing-Induced Cooperativity Highlighted by Scanning Tunneling Microscopy at the Liquid/Solid Interface. Chemistry 2015; 21:11350-8. [PMID: 26119457 DOI: 10.1002/chem.201500804] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/27/2015] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Stimulus control over 2D multicomponent molecular ordering on surfaces is a key technique for realizing advanced materials with stimuli-responsive surface properties. The formation of 2D molecular ordering along with photoisomerization was monitored by scanning tunneling microscopy at the octanoic acid/highly oriented pyrolytic graphite interface for a synthesized amide-containing diarylethene, which underwent photoisomerization between the open- and closed-ring isomers and also a side-reaction to give the annulated isomer. The nucleation (Kn) and elongation (Ke) equilibrium constants were determined by analysis of the concentration dependence of the surface coverage by using a cooperative model at the liquid/solid interface. It was found that the annulated isomer has a very large equilibrium constant, which explains the predominantly observed ordering of the annulated isomer. It was also found that the presence of the closed-ring isomer induces cooperativity into the formation of molecular ordering composed of the open-ring isomer. A quantitative analysis of the formation of ordering by using the cooperative model has provided a new view of the formation of 2D multicomponent molecular ordering.
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- Denis Frath
- Department of Synthetic Chemistry and Biological Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University, Katsura, Nishikyo-ku, Kyoto 615-8510 (Japan)
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- Department of Synthetic Chemistry and Biological Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University, Katsura, Nishikyo-ku, Kyoto 615-8510 (Japan)
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- Department of Synthetic Chemistry and Biological Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University, Katsura, Nishikyo-ku, Kyoto 615-8510 (Japan)
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- Department of Synthetic Chemistry and Biological Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University, Katsura, Nishikyo-ku, Kyoto 615-8510 (Japan)
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- Department of Synthetic Chemistry and Biological Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University, Katsura, Nishikyo-ku, Kyoto 615-8510 (Japan)
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- Department of Synthetic Chemistry and Biological Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University, Katsura, Nishikyo-ku, Kyoto 615-8510 (Japan).
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Pijper TC, Robertus J, Browne WR, Feringa BL. Mild Ti-mediated transformation of t-butyl thio-ethers into thio-acetates. Org Biomol Chem 2015; 13:265-8. [PMID: 25407165 DOI: 10.1039/c4ob02120g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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We report a straightforward method for the rapid conversion of thio-ethers to thio-acetates using TiCl4, in good to excellent yields. The reaction conditions tolerate a variety of functional groups, including halide, nitro, ether, thiophene and acetylene functionalities. A catalytic variant of this reaction is also described.
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- Thomas C Pijper
- Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials, University of Groningen, Nijenborgh 4, 9747 Groningen, The Netherlands.
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Sendler T, Luka-Guth K, Wieser M, Lokamani, Wolf J, Helm M, Gemming S, Kerbusch J, Scheer E, Huhn T, Erbe A. Light-Induced Switching of Tunable Single-Molecule Junctions. ADVANCED SCIENCE (WEINHEIM, BADEN-WURTTEMBERG, GERMANY) 2015; 2:1500017. [PMID: 27980936 PMCID: PMC5115361 DOI: 10.1002/advs.201500017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/26/2015] [Revised: 03/13/2015] [Indexed: 12/12/2023]
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A major goal of molecular electronics is the development and implementation of devices such as single-molecular switches. Here, measurements are presented that show the controlled in situ switching of diarylethene molecules from their nonconductive to conductive state in contact to gold nanoelectrodes via controlled light irradiation. Both the conductance and the quantum yield for switching of these molecules are within a range making the molecules suitable for actual devices. The conductance of the molecular junctions in the opened and closed states is characterized and the molecular level E0, which dominates the current transport in the closed state, and its level broadening Γ are identified. The obtained results show a clear light-induced ring forming isomerization of the single-molecule junctions. Electron withdrawing side-groups lead to a reduction of conductance, but do not influence the efficiency of the switching mechanism. Quantum chemical calculations of the light-induced switching processes correlate these observations with the fundamentally different low-lying electronic states of the opened and closed forms and their comparably small modification by electron-withdrawing substituents. This full characterization of a molecular switch operated in a molecular junction is an important step toward the development of real molecular electronics devices.
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- Torsten Sendler
- Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden - Rossendorf Bautzner Landstraße 400 01328 Dresden Germany
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- Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden - Rossendorf Bautzner Landstraße 400 01328 Dresden Germany
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- Institute for Materials Science and Max Bergmann Center of Biomaterials Dresden Technische Universität Dresden 01062 Dresden Germany
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- Fachbereich Chemie Universität Konstanz 78457 Konstanz Germany
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- Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden - Rossendorf Bautzner Landstraße 40001328 Dresden Germany; Center for Advancing Electronics Dresden Technische Universität Dresden 01062 Dresden Germany
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- Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden - Rossendorf Bautzner Landstraße 40001328 Dresden Germany; Faculty of Science Technische Universität Chemnitz 09107 Chemnitz Germany
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- Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden - Rossendorf Bautzner Landstraße 40001328 Dresden Germany; Center for Advancing Electronics Dresden Technische Universität Dresden 01062 Dresden Germany
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- Department of Physics Universität Konstanz 78457 Konstanz Germany
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- Fachbereich Chemie Universität Konstanz 78457 Konstanz Germany
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- Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden - Rossendorf Bautzner Landstraße 400 01328 Dresden Germany
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Mezour MA, Perepichka II, Ivasenko O, Lennox RB, Perepichka DF. Tridentate benzylthiols on Au(111): control of self-assembly geometry. NANOSCALE 2015; 7:5014-5022. [PMID: 25695677 DOI: 10.1039/c4nr07207c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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A set of hexasubstituted benzene derivatives with three thiol groups in the 1, 3, 5 positions and varied aliphatic substituents in the 2, 4, 6 positions (Me3-BTMT, Et3-BTMT, ODe3-BTMT) has been synthesized and self-assembled on Au(111). The resulting self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) are characterized by scanning tunneling microscopy (STM), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), and electrochemistry. The molecular orientation and long-range order are affected by the “gear effect” of the hexasubstituted benzene ring and van der Waals interactions between the physisorbed alkyl chains drive. Me3-BTMT adopts a standing up orientation which results in the highest molecular surface density but also the lowest degree of chemisorption (1 to 2 Au–S bonds per molecule). In contrast, Et3-BTMT favors a lying down orientation with a greater number of surface-bonded thiol groups (2 to 3) per molecule, associated with the peculiar geometry of this molecule. Finally, ODe3-BTMT adsorbs mainly in a lying down orientation, forming the SAM with the highest degree of chemisorption (all thiol groups are gold-bonded) and the lowest molecular areal density.
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- Mohamed A Mezour
- Department of Chemistry and Centre for Self-Assembled Chemical Structures, McGill University, 801 Sherbrooke St. West, Montreal (QC) H3A 0B8, Canada.
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Irie M, Fukaminato T, Matsuda K, Kobatake S. Photochromism of Diarylethene Molecules and Crystals: Memories, Switches, and Actuators. Chem Rev 2014; 114:12174-277. [DOI: 10.1021/cr500249p] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1755] [Impact Index Per Article: 175.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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- Masahiro Irie
- Research
Center for Smart Molecules, Rikkyo University, Nishi-Ikebukuro 3-34-1, Toshima-ku, Tokyo 171-8501, Japan
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- Research
Institute for Electronic Science, Hokkaido University, N20, W10, Kita-ku,
Sapporo 001-0020, Japan
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- Department
of Synthetic Chemistry and Biological Chemistry, Graduate School of
Engineering, Kyoto University, Katsura, Nishikyo-ku, Kyoto 615-8510, Japan
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- Department
of Applied Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka City University, Sugimoto 3-3-138, Sumiyoshi-ku, Osaka 558-8585, Japan
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Snegir SV, Yu P, Maurel F, Kapitanchuk OL, Marchenko AA, Lacaze E. Switching at the nanoscale: light- and STM-tip-induced switch of a thiolated diarylethene self-assembly on Au(111). LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2014; 30:13556-13563. [PMID: 25264847 DOI: 10.1021/la5029806] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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The light-induced and STM-tip-induced switching of photochromic thiol functionalized terphenylthiazole-based diarylethene self-assembly on Au(111) has been investigated in ambient conditions. For such a purpose, we took advantage of the formation of highly ordered domains of opened-ring (1o) or closed-ring (1c) diarylethene isomers. We evidenced a STM-tip-induced switching for the 1o isomer characterized by a tip bias threshold of 1000 mV above which switching of all molecules of the ordered 1o domains occurs into the 1c isomer. In contrast, switching from 1c form into 1o form is not observed at the same tunnelling conditions within a domain formed by ordered 1c molecules. We compared tip-induced switching of ordered 1o domains and switching of single 1o isomers embedded in 1c domains. This led to the demonstration that the process of switching of the 1o isomer is determined by geometry of the molecules but also that the stability of the switched 1c isomer depends on the nature of the surrounding isomers. We also compare tip-induced switching and switching under the action of external UV light irradiation of ordered 1o domains. In contrast with STM tip-induced switching, the UV light induces switching of 1o domains into their stable 1c form, in agreement with a collective switching under irradiation, which cannot occur under the action of STM tip.
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- Sergii V Snegir
- CNRS, UMR 7588, Institut des Nanosciences de Paris, 4 place Jussieu, F-75005, Paris, France
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Wang L, Li SY, Yuan JH, Gu JY, Wang D, Wan LJ. Electron transport characteristics of the dimeric 1,4-benzenedithiol junction. Chem Asian J 2014; 9:2077-82. [PMID: 24909757 DOI: 10.1002/asia.201402196] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/07/2014] [Revised: 04/10/2014] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Understanding the electron transport between single molecules connected through weak interaction is of great importance for molecular electronics. In this paper, we report measurements of the conductivity of the dimeric 1,4-benzenedithiol (BDT) junction using the scanning tunneling microscopy (STM)-based current-displacement I(s) method. The conductance was measured to be 6.14×10(-6) G0 , a value almost two orders of magnitude lower than that of the monomer BDT junction. In control experiments, the probability of junction formation decreased with the presence of tris(2-chloroethyl) phosphate (TCEP), a reducing reagent for the disulfide bond. According to theoretical computations, the dihedral angle of the SS bond tends to take a perpendicular conformation. This non-conjugated structure localizes the electron distribution and accounts for the low conductivity of the disulfide linkage.
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- Lin Wang
- CAS Key Laboratory of Molecular Nanostructure and Nanotechnology, Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Institute of Chemistry, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190 (People's Republic of China), Fax: (+86) 10-62558934; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049 (People's Republic of China)
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