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Lv J, Sun R, Yang Q, Gan P, Yu S, Tan Z. Research on Electric Field-Induced Catalysis Using Single-Molecule Electrical Measurement. Molecules 2023; 28:4968. [PMID: 37446629 DOI: 10.3390/molecules28134968] [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: 05/14/2023] [Revised: 06/19/2023] [Accepted: 06/22/2023] [Indexed: 07/15/2023] Open
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The role of catalysis in controlling chemical reactions is crucial. As an important external stimulus regulatory tool, electric field (EF) catalysis enables further possibilities for chemical reaction regulation. To date, the regulation mechanism of electric fields and electrons on chemical reactions has been modeled. The electric field at the single-molecule electronic scale provides a powerful theoretical weapon to explore the dynamics of individual chemical reactions. The combination of electric fields and single-molecule electronic techniques not only uncovers new principles but also results in the regulation of chemical reactions at the single-molecule scale. This perspective focuses on the recent electric field-catalyzed, single-molecule chemical reactions and assembly, and highlights promising outlooks for future work in single-molecule catalysis.
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- Jieyao Lv
- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot 010021, China
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- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot 010021, China
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- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot 010021, China
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- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot 010021, China
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- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot 010021, China
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- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot 010021, China
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Li T, Bandari VK, Schmidt OG. Molecular Electronics: Creating and Bridging Molecular Junctions and Promoting Its Commercialization. ADVANCED MATERIALS (DEERFIELD BEACH, FLA.) 2023; 35:e2209088. [PMID: 36512432 DOI: 10.1002/adma.202209088] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/02/2022] [Revised: 11/28/2022] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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Molecular electronics is driven by the dream of expanding Moore's law to the molecular level for next-generation electronics through incorporating individual or ensemble molecules into electronic circuits. For nearly 50 years, numerous efforts have been made to explore the intrinsic properties of molecules and develop diverse fascinating molecular electronic devices with the desired functionalities. The flourishing of molecular electronics is inseparable from the development of various elegant methodologies for creating nanogap electrodes and bridging the nanogap with molecules. This review first focuses on the techniques for making lateral and vertical nanogap electrodes by breaking, narrowing, and fixed modes, and highlights their capabilities, applications, merits, and shortcomings. After summarizing the approaches of growing single molecules or molecular layers on the electrodes, the methods of constructing a complete molecular circuit are comprehensively grouped into three categories: 1) directly bridging one-molecule-electrode component with another electrode, 2) physically bridging two-molecule-electrode components, and 3) chemically bridging two-molecule-electrode components. Finally, the current state of molecular circuit integration and commercialization is discussed and perspectives are provided, hoping to encourage the community to accelerate the realization of fully scalable molecular electronics for a new era of integrated microsystems and applications.
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- Tianming Li
- Research Center for Materials, Architectures and Integration of Nanomembranes (MAIN), Chemnitz University of Technology, 09126, Chemnitz, Germany
- Material Systems for Nanoelectronics, Chemnitz University of Technology, 09111, Chemnitz, Germany
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- Research Center for Materials, Architectures and Integration of Nanomembranes (MAIN), Chemnitz University of Technology, 09126, Chemnitz, Germany
- Material Systems for Nanoelectronics, Chemnitz University of Technology, 09111, Chemnitz, Germany
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- Research Center for Materials, Architectures and Integration of Nanomembranes (MAIN), Chemnitz University of Technology, 09126, Chemnitz, Germany
- Material Systems for Nanoelectronics, Chemnitz University of Technology, 09111, Chemnitz, Germany
- Nanophysics, Dresden University of Technology, 01069, Dresden, Germany
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Fyta M. Functionalized electrodes embedded in nanopores: read-out enhancement? Chem Asian J 2023; 18:e202200916. [PMID: 36372991 PMCID: PMC10107472 DOI: 10.1002/asia.202200916] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/02/2022] [Revised: 11/12/2022] [Accepted: 11/12/2022] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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In this review, functionalized nanogaps embedded in nanopores are discussed in view of their high biosensitivity in detecting biomolecules, their length, type, and sequence. Specific focus is given on nanoelectrodes functionalized with tiny nanometer-sized diamond-like particles offering vast functionalization possibilities for gold junction electrodes. This choice of the functionalization, in turn, offers nucleotide-specific binding possibilities improving the detection signals arising from such functionalized electrodes potentially embedded in a nanopore. The review sheds light onto the use and enhancement of the tunnelling recognition in functionalized nanogaps towards sensing DNA nucleotides and mutation detection, providing important input for a practical realization.
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- Maria Fyta
- Computational Biotechnology, RWTH-Aachen University, Worringerweg 3, 52072, Aachen, Germany
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Dipolar Noise in Fluorinated Molecular Wires. NANOMATERIALS 2022; 12:nano12081371. [PMID: 35458080 PMCID: PMC9031467 DOI: 10.3390/nano12081371] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2022] [Revised: 04/09/2022] [Accepted: 04/14/2022] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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We demonstrate a strategy to directly map and quantify the effects of dipole formation on electrical transports and noises in the self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) of molecular wires. In this method, the SAM patterns of fluorinated molecules with dipole moments were prepared on conducting substrates, and a conducting probe in contact-mode atomic force microscopy was utilized to map currents and noises through the probe on the molecular patterns. The maps were analyzed to extract the characteristic parameters of dipolar noises in SAMs, and the results were compared with those of hydrogenated molecular patterns without dipole moments. At rather low bias conditions, the fluorinated molecular junctions exhibited a tunneling conduction and a resistance value comparable to that of the hydrogenated molecules with a six-times-longer length, which was attributed to stronger dipoles formation in fluorinated molecules. Interestingly, conductance (G) in different regions of fluorinated molecular patterns exhibited a strong correlation with a noise power spectral density of SI/I2 like SI/I2 ∝ G-2, which can be explained by enhanced barrier fluctuations produced by the dipoles of fluorinated molecules. Furthermore, we observed that the noise power spectral density of fluorinated molecules showed an anomalous frequency (f) dependence like SI/I2 ∝ 1/f1.7, possibly due to the slowing down of the tunneling of carriers from increased barrier fluctuations. In rather high bias conditions, conductions in both hydrogenated and fluorinated molecules showed a transition from tunneling to thermionic charge transports. Our results provide important insights into the effects of dipoles on mesoscopic transport and resistance-fluctuation in molecules and could have a significant impact on the fundamental understanding and applications in this area.
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Park J, Kodaimati MS, Belding L, Root SE, Schatz GC, Whitesides GM. Controlled Hysteresis of Conductance in Molecular Tunneling Junctions. ACS NANO 2022; 16:4206-4216. [PMID: 35230085 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.1c10155] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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The problem this paper addresses is the origin of the hysteretic behavior in two-terminal molecular junctions made from an EGaIn electrode and self-assembled monolayers of alkanethiolates terminated in chelates (transition metal dichlorides complexed with 2,2'-bipyridine; BIPY-MCl2). The hysteresis of conductance displayed by these BIPY-MCl2 junctions changes in magnitude depending on the identity of the metal ion (M) and the window of the applied voltage across the junction. The hysteretic behavior of conductance in these junctions appears only in an incoherent (Fowler-Nordheim) tunneling regime. When the complexed metal ion is Mn(II), Fe(II), Co(II), or Ni(II), both incoherent tunneling and hysteresis are observed for a voltage range between +1.0 V and -1.0 V. When the metal ion is Cr(II) or Cu(II), however, only resonant (one-step) tunneling is observed, and the junctions exhibit no hysteresis and do not enter the incoherent tunneling regime. Using this correlation, the conductance characteristics of BIPY-MCl2 junctions can be controlled. This voltage-induced change of conductance demonstrates a simple, fast, and reversible way (i.e., by changing the applied voltage) to modulate conductance in molecular tunneling junctions.
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- Junwoo Park
- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, 12 Oxford Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, United States
- Department of Chemistry, Sogang University, Mapo-gu, Seoul 04107, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, 12 Oxford Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, 12 Oxford Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, 12 Oxford Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, Illinois 60208-3113, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, 12 Oxford Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, United States
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Gao T, Pan Z, Cai Z, Zheng J, Tang C, Yuan S, Zhao SQ, Bai H, Yang Y, Shi J, Xiao Z, Liu J, Hong W. Electric field-induced switching among multiple conductance pathways in single-molecule junctions. Chem Commun (Camb) 2021; 57:7160-7163. [PMID: 34184023 DOI: 10.1039/d1cc02111g] [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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Here, we report the switching among multiple conductance pathways achieved by sliding the scanning tunneling microscope tip among different binding sites under different electric fields. With an increase in the electric field, high molecular conductance states appear, suggesting the formation of different configurations in single-molecule junctions. The switch can be operated in situ and reversibly, which is also confirmed by the apparent conductance conversion in I-V measurements. Theoretical simulations also agree well with the experimental results, which implies that the electric field enables the possibility to trigger switching in single-molecule junctions.
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- Tengyang Gao
- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China.
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- College of Materials, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China.
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Nanofabrication Techniques in Large-Area Molecular Electronic Devices. APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL 2020. [DOI: 10.3390/app10176064] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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The societal impact of the electronics industry is enormous—not to mention how this industry impinges on the global economy. The foreseen limits of the current technology—technical, economic, and sustainability issues—open the door to the search for successor technologies. In this context, molecular electronics has emerged as a promising candidate that, at least in the short-term, will not likely replace our silicon-based electronics, but improve its performance through a nascent hybrid technology. Such technology will take advantage of both the small dimensions of the molecules and new functionalities resulting from the quantum effects that govern the properties at the molecular scale. An optimization of interface engineering and integration of molecules to form densely integrated individually addressable arrays of molecules are two crucial aspects in the molecular electronics field. These challenges should be met to establish the bridge between organic functional materials and hard electronics required for the incorporation of such hybrid technology in the market. In this review, the most advanced methods for fabricating large-area molecular electronic devices are presented, highlighting their advantages and limitations. Special emphasis is focused on bottom-up methodologies for the fabrication of well-ordered and tightly-packed monolayers onto the bottom electrode, followed by a description of the top-contact deposition methods so far used.
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Audi H, Viero Y, Alwhaibi N, Chen Z, Iazykov M, Heynderickx A, Xiao F, Guérin D, Krzeminski C, Grace IM, Lambert CJ, Siri O, Vuillaume D, Lenfant S, Klein H. Electrical molecular switch addressed by chemical stimuli. NANOSCALE 2020; 12:10127-10139. [PMID: 32352127 DOI: 10.1039/d0nr02461a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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We demonstrate that the conductance switching of benzo-bis(imidazole) molecules upon protonation depends on the lateral functional groups. The protonated H-substituted molecule shows a higher conductance than the neutral one (Gpro > Gneu), while the opposite (Gneu > Gpro) is observed for a molecule laterally functionalized by amino-phenyl groups. These results are demonstrated at various scale lengths: self-assembled monolayers, tiny nanodot-molecule junctions and single molecules. From ab initio theoretical calculations, we conclude that for the H-substituted molecule, the result Gpro > Gneu is correctly explained by a reduction of the LUMO-HOMO gap, while for the amino-phenyl functionnalized molecule, the result Gneu > Gpro is consistent with a shift of the HOMO, which reduces the density of states at the Fermi energy.
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- H Audi
- Centre Interdisciplinaire de Nanoscience de Marseille (CINaM), CNRS, Aix Marseille Université, Marseille, France.
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Zhao S, Wu Q, Pi J, Liu J, Zheng J, Hou S, Wei J, Li R, Sadeghi H, Yang Y, Shi J, Chen Z, Xiao Z, Lambert C, Hong W. Cross-plane transport in a single-molecule two-dimensional van der Waals heterojunction. SCIENCE ADVANCES 2020; 6:eaba6714. [PMID: 32524003 PMCID: PMC7259930 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aba6714] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2019] [Accepted: 03/31/2020] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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Two-dimensional van der Waals heterojunctions (2D-vdWHs) stacked from atomically thick 2D materials are predicted to be a diverse class of electronic materials with unique electronic properties. These properties can be further tuned by sandwiching monolayers of planar organic molecules between 2D materials to form molecular 2D-vdWHs (M-2D-vdWHs), in which electricity flows in a cross-plane way from one 2D layer to the other via a single molecular layer. Using a newly developed cross-plane break junction technique, combined with density functional theory calculations, we show that M-2D-vdWHs can be created and that cross-plane charge transport can be tuned by incorporating guest molecules. The M-2D-vdWHs exhibit distinct cross-plane charge transport signatures, which differ from those of molecules undergoing in-plane charge transport.
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- Shiqiang Zhao
- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, iChEM, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering & Pen-Tung Sah Institute of Micro-Nano Science and Technology, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China
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- Department of Physics, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YB, UK
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, iChEM, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering & Pen-Tung Sah Institute of Micro-Nano Science and Technology, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, iChEM, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering & Pen-Tung Sah Institute of Micro-Nano Science and Technology, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, iChEM, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering & Pen-Tung Sah Institute of Micro-Nano Science and Technology, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China
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- Department of Physics, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YB, UK
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, iChEM, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering & Pen-Tung Sah Institute of Micro-Nano Science and Technology, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, iChEM, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering & Pen-Tung Sah Institute of Micro-Nano Science and Technology, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China
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- Department of Physics, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YB, UK
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, iChEM, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering & Pen-Tung Sah Institute of Micro-Nano Science and Technology, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China
- Innovation Laboratory for Sciences and Technologies of Energy Materials of Fujian Province (IKKEM), Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, iChEM, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering & Pen-Tung Sah Institute of Micro-Nano Science and Technology, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, iChEM, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering & Pen-Tung Sah Institute of Micro-Nano Science and Technology, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, iChEM, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering & Pen-Tung Sah Institute of Micro-Nano Science and Technology, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China
- Innovation Laboratory for Sciences and Technologies of Energy Materials of Fujian Province (IKKEM), Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China
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- Department of Physics, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YB, UK
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, iChEM, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering & Pen-Tung Sah Institute of Micro-Nano Science and Technology, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China
- Innovation Laboratory for Sciences and Technologies of Energy Materials of Fujian Province (IKKEM), Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China
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Nojo W, Tamaoki H, Ishigaki Y, Katoono R, Fujiwara K, Fukushima T, Suzuki T. Molecular Wires with Controllable π-Delocalization Incorporating Redox-Triggered π-Conjugated Switching Units. Chempluschem 2020; 84:634-642. [PMID: 31944008 DOI: 10.1002/cplu.201800341] [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: 07/02/2018] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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A perfluorobiphenyl-2,2'-diyl dication and its corresponding dihydrophenanthrene-type electron donor are interconvertible upon two-electron transfer. Redox-triggered C-C bond-formation/cleavage caused a drastic change in the torsion angle of the biphenyl unit. Thus, π-delocalization ON/OFF switching was observed as a change in the UV absorption upon electrolysis of the linearly extended analogue with two phenylethynyl groups. A further extended π-system with a molecular length of ca. 3.5 nm, which has two switching units, was synthesized. Spectroelectrograms as well as voltammetric analyses showed that the two units act nearly simultaneously because of the very small inter-unit electrostatic repulsion in the tetracationic state. Thus, the present pair is a promising candidate as a switching unit for "molecular wires" with controllable π-delocalization, in which a higher ON/OFF ratio of delocalization could be realized by incorporating multiple switching units.
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- Wataru Nojo
- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, 060-0810, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, 060-0810, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, 060-0810, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, 060-0810, Japan
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- Department of Life Science, Graduate School of Engineering, Akita University, Akita, 010-8502, Japan
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- Laboratory for Chemistry and Life Science, Institute of Innovative Research, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, 226-8503, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, 060-0810, Japan
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Stable thin films of human P53 antigen on gold surface for the detection of tumour associated anti-P53 autoantibodies. Electrochim Acta 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.electacta.2019.135272] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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Fu Z, Ladnorg T, Gliemann H, Welle A, Bashir A, Rohwerder M, Zhang Q, Schüpbach B, Terfort A, Wöll C. Mobility of charge carriers in self-assembled monolayers. BEILSTEIN JOURNAL OF NANOTECHNOLOGY 2019; 10:2449-2458. [PMID: 31921523 PMCID: PMC6941449 DOI: 10.3762/bjnano.10.235] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/27/2019] [Accepted: 11/12/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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We present a new approach to study charge transport within 2D layers of organic semi-conductors (OSCs) using atomic force microscopy (AFM)-based lithography applied to self-assembled monolayers (SAMs), fabricated from appropriate organothiols. The extent of lateral charge transport was investigated by insulating pre-defined patches within OSC-based SAMs with regions of insulating SAM made from large band gap alkanethiolates. The new method is demonstrated using a phenyl-linked anthracenethiolate (PAT), 4-(anthracene-2-ylethynyl)benzyl thiolate. I-V characteristics of differently shaped PAT-islands were measured using the AFM tip as a top electrode. We were able to determine a relationship between island size and electrical conductivity, and from this dependence, we could obtain information on the lateral charge transport and charge carrier mobility within the thin OSC layers. Our study demonstrates that AFM nanografting of appropriately functionalized OSC molecules provides a suitable method to determine intrinsic mobilities of charge carriers in OSC thin films. In particular, this method is rather insensitive with regard to influence of grain boundaries and other defects, which hamper the application of conventional methods for the determination of mobilities in macroscopic samples.
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- Zhihua Fu
- Institute of Functional Interfaces (IFG), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Campus Nord, 76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany
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- Institute of Functional Interfaces (IFG), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Campus Nord, 76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany
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- Institute of Functional Interfaces (IFG), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Campus Nord, 76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany
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- Institute of Functional Interfaces (IFG), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Campus Nord, 76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung GmbH, 40237 Düsseldorf, Germany
- Thyssenkrupp Bilstein GmbH, Herner Str. 299, 44809 Bochum, Germany
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung GmbH, 40237 Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Institute of Functional Interfaces (IFG), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Campus Nord, 76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, Institute of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, Goethe-University, 60438 Frankfurt, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, Institute of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, Goethe-University, 60438 Frankfurt, Germany
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- Institute of Functional Interfaces (IFG), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Campus Nord, 76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany
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Fujii S, Koike M, Nishino T, Shoji Y, Suzuki T, Fukushima T, Kiguchi M. Electric-Field-Controllable Conductance Switching of an Overcrowded Ethylene Self-Assembled Monolayer. J Am Chem Soc 2019; 141:18544-18550. [PMID: 31670509 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.9b09233] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Molecular isomerism has been discussed from the viewpoint of the tiniest switch and memory elements in electronics. Here, we report an overcrowded ethylene-based molecular conductance switch, which fulfills all the essential requirements for implementation into electronic devices, namely, electric-field-controllable reversible conductance change with a molecular-level spatial resolution, robust conformational bistability under ambient conditions, and ordered monolayer formation on electrode surfaces. The conformational state of this overcrowded ethylene, represented by a folded or twisted conformer, is susceptible to external environments. Nanoscopic measurements using scanning tunneling microscopy techniques, together with theoretical simulations, revealed the electronic properties of each conformer adsorbed on Au(111). While the twisted conformer prevails in the molecularly dispersed state, upon self-assembly into a monolayer, a two-dimensional network structure of the folded conformer is preferentially formed due to particular intermolecular interaction. In the monolayer state, folded-to-twisted and its reverse isomerization can be controlled by the modulation of electric fields.
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- Shintaro Fujii
- Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science and Engineering , Tokyo Institute of Technology , 2-12-1 W4-10 Ookayama , Meguro-ku , Tokyo 152-8551 , Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science and Engineering , Tokyo Institute of Technology , 2-12-1 W4-10 Ookayama , Meguro-ku , Tokyo 152-8551 , Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science and Engineering , Tokyo Institute of Technology , 2-12-1 W4-10 Ookayama , Meguro-ku , Tokyo 152-8551 , Japan
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- Laboratory for Chemistry and Life Science, Institute of Innovative Research , Tokyo Institute of Technology , 4259 Nagatsuta , Midori-ku , Yokohama 226-8503 , Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science , Hokkaido University , Sapporo , Hokkaido 060-0810 , Japan
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- Laboratory for Chemistry and Life Science, Institute of Innovative Research , Tokyo Institute of Technology , 4259 Nagatsuta , Midori-ku , Yokohama 226-8503 , Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science and Engineering , Tokyo Institute of Technology , 2-12-1 W4-10 Ookayama , Meguro-ku , Tokyo 152-8551 , Japan
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Zhao P, Chen G. Molecular Boolean logic gates based on spin caloritronic transport properties of planar four-coordinate Fe complex-based molecular devices. Chem Phys Lett 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cplett.2019.136671] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Mahapatra S, Ning Y, Schultz JF, Li L, Zhang JL, Jiang N. Angstrom Scale Chemical Analysis of Metal Supported Trans- and Cis-Regioisomers by Ultrahigh Vacuum Tip-Enhanced Raman Mapping. NANO LETTERS 2019; 19:3267-3272. [PMID: 30994356 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.9b00826] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/17/2023]
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Real space chemical analysis of two structurally very similar components, that is, regioisomers lies at the heart of heterogeneous catalysis reactions, modern-age electronic devices, and various other surface related problems in surface science and nanotechnology. One of the big challenges in surface chemistry is to identify different surface adsorbed molecules and analyze their chemical properties individually. Herein, we report a topological and chemical analysis of two regioisomers, trans- and cis-tetrakispentafluorophenylporphodilactone ( trans- and cis-H2F20TPPDL) molecules by high-resolution scanning tunneling microscopy, and ultrahigh vacuum tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (UHV-TERS). Both isomeric structures are investigated individually on Ag(100) at liquid nitrogen temperature. Following that, we have successfully distinguished these two regioisomeric molecules simultaneously through TERS with an angstrom scale (8 Å) spatial resolution. Also, the two-component organic heterojunction has been characterized at large scale using high-resolution two-dimensional mapping. Combined with time-dependent density functional theory simulations, we explain the TERS spectral discrepancies for both isomers in the fingerprint region.
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- Sayantan Mahapatra
- Department of Chemistry , University of Illinois at Chicago , Chicago , Illinois 60607 , United States
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering , Peking University , Beijing 100871 , P.R. China
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- Department of Chemistry , University of Illinois at Chicago , Chicago , Illinois 60607 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry , University of Illinois at Chicago , Chicago , Illinois 60607 , United States
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering , Peking University , Beijing 100871 , P.R. China
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- Department of Chemistry , University of Illinois at Chicago , Chicago , Illinois 60607 , United States
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Dey D, Roy P, De D. First principle study of the self-switching characteristics of the guanine based single optical molecular switch using carbon nanotube electrodes. IET Nanobiotechnol 2019; 13:237-241. [PMID: 31051457 DOI: 10.1049/iet-nbt.2018.5227] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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The switching property of an optical single molecular switch based on a single DNA molecule guanine with a single walled carbon nanotube electrode has been investigated using density functional theory along with non-equilibrium Green's function based first principle approach. The semi-empirical model of this single bio-molecular switch has been operated at an ultra-high 25 THz frequency in mid-UV range. This single bio-molecule comprises switching activity upon UV photo-excitation. The influence of the highest occupied molecular orbital and lowest unoccupied molecular orbital gap and the quantum ballistic transmission into the switching activity are discussed in detail in this study. It has been observed that the maximum ON-OFF ratio, i.e. 327 is obtained at +0.8 V bias voltage. Theoretical results show that current through the twisted form is sufficiently larger than the straightened form, which recommends that this structure has smart prospective application in the future generation switching nanotechnology.
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- Debarati Dey
- Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology, BF-142, Sector 1, Salt Lake City, Kolkata - 700 064, West Bengal, India.
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- Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Swami Vivekananda Institute of Science and Technology, Dakshin Gobindapur, P.S.: Sonarpur, Kolkata - 700 145, West Bengal, India
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- Department of Physics, University of Western Australia, M013, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, Perth, WA 6009, Australia
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Herrer L, González-Orive A, Marqués-González S, Martín S, Nichols RJ, Serrano JL, Low PJ, Cea P. Electrically transmissive alkyne-anchored monolayers on gold. NANOSCALE 2019; 11:7976-7985. [PMID: 30968913 DOI: 10.1039/c8nr10464f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Well-ordered, tightly-packed (surface coverage 0.97 × 10-9 mol cm-2) monolayer films of 1,4-bis((4-ethynylphenyl)ethynyl)benzene (1) on gold are prepared via a simple self-assembly process, taking advantage of the ready formation of alkynyl C-Au σ-bonds. Electrochemical measurements using [Ru(NH3)6]3+, [Fe(CN)6]3-, and ferrocenylmethanol [Fe(η5-C5H4CH2OH)(η5-C5H5)] redox probes indicate that the alkynyl C-Au contacted monolayer of 1 presents a relatively low barrier for electron transfer. This contrasts with monolayer films on gold of other oligo(phenylene ethynylene) derivatives of comparable length and surface coverage, but with different contacting groups. Additionally, a low voltage transition (Vtrans = 0.51 V) from direct tunneling (rectangular barrier) to field emission (triangular barrier) is observed. This low transition voltage points to a low tunneling barrier, which is consistent with the facile electron transport observed through the C-Au contacted self-assembled monolayer of 1.
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- Lucía Herrer
- Departamento de Química Física, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Zaragoza, 50009, Zaragoza, Spain.
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Guo J, Pan J, Chang S, Wang X, Kong N, Yang W, He J. Monitoring the Dynamic Process of Formation of Plasmonic Molecular Junctions during Single Nanoparticle Collisions. SMALL (WEINHEIM AN DER BERGSTRASSE, GERMANY) 2018; 14:e1704164. [PMID: 29493086 DOI: 10.1002/smll.201704164] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/29/2017] [Revised: 01/21/2018] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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The capability to study the dynamic formation of plasmonic molecular junction is of fundamental importance, and it will provide new insights into molecular electronics/plasmonics, single-entity electrochemistry, and nanooptoelectronics. Here, a facile method to form plasmonic molecular junctions is reported by utilizing single gold nanoparticle (NP) collision events at a highly curved gold nanoelectrode modified with a self-assembled monolayer. By using time-resolved electrochemical current measurement and surface-enhanced Raman scattering spectroscopy, the current changes and the evolution of interfacial chemical bonding are successfully observed in the newly formed molecular tunnel junctions during and after the gold NP "hit-n-stay" and "hit-n-run" collision events. The results lead to an in-depth understanding of the single NP motion and the associated molecular level changes during the formation of the plasmonic molecular junctions in a single NP collision event. This method also provides a new platform to study molecular changes at the single molecule level during electron transport in a dynamic molecular tunnel junction.
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- Jing Guo
- Department of Physics, Florida International University, Miami, FL, 33199, USA
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- Department of Physics, Florida International University, Miami, FL, 33199, USA
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- College of Materials and Metallurgy, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, 430081, China
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- Department of Physics, Florida International University, Miami, FL, 33199, USA
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- Center for Chemistry and Biotechnology, School of Life and Environmental Science, Deakin University, VIC, 3216, Australia
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- Center for Chemistry and Biotechnology, School of Life and Environmental Science, Deakin University, VIC, 3216, Australia
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- Department of Physics, Florida International University, Miami, FL, 33199, USA
- Department of Physics and Biomolecular Science Institute, Florida International University, Miami, FL, 33199, USA
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Gervais E, Aceta Y, Gros P, Evrard D. Study of an AuNPs functionalized electrode using different diazonium salts for the ultra-fast detection of Hg(II) traces in water. Electrochim Acta 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.electacta.2017.12.136] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Li C, Wang Z, Lu Y, Liu X, Wang L. Conformation-based signal transfer and processing at the single-molecule level. NATURE NANOTECHNOLOGY 2017; 12:1071-1076. [PMID: 28920965 DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2017.179] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/17/2016] [Accepted: 07/20/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Building electronic components made of individual molecules is a promising strategy for the miniaturization and integration of electronic devices. However, the practical realization of molecular devices and circuits for signal transmission and processing at room temperature has proven challenging. Here, we present room-temperature intermolecular signal transfer and processing using SnCl2Pc molecules on a Cu(100) surface. The in-plane orientations of the molecules are effectively coupled via intermolecular interaction and serve as the information carrier. In the coupled molecular arrays, the signal can be transferred from one molecule to another in the in-plane direction along predesigned routes and processed to realize logical operations. These phenomena enable the use of molecules displaying intrinsic bistable states as complex molecular devices and circuits with novel functions.
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- Chao Li
- Department of Physics, Nanchang University, Nanchang 330031, China
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- Department of Physics, Nanchang University, Nanchang 330031, China
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- Department of Physics, Nanchang University, Nanchang 330031, China
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- Department of Physics, Nanchang University, Nanchang 330031, China
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- Department of Physics, Nanchang University, Nanchang 330031, China
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Effect of amino on spin-dependent transport through a junction of fused oligothiophenes between graphene electrodes. Chem Phys 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.chemphys.2017.03.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Direct mapping of electrical noise sources in molecular wire-based devices. Sci Rep 2017; 7:43411. [PMID: 28233821 PMCID: PMC5324066 DOI: 10.1038/srep43411] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/27/2016] [Accepted: 01/24/2017] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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We report a noise mapping strategy for the reliable identification and analysis of noise sources in molecular wire junctions. Here, different molecular wires were patterned on a gold substrate, and the current-noise map on the pattern was measured and analyzed, enabling the quantitative study of noise sources in the patterned molecular wires. The frequency spectra of the noise from the molecular wire junctions exhibited characteristic 1/f2 behavior, which was used to identify the electrical signals from molecular wires. This method was applied to analyze the molecular junctions comprising various thiol molecules on a gold substrate, revealing that the noise in the junctions mainly came from the fluctuation of the thiol bonds. Furthermore, we quantitatively compared the frequencies of such bond fluctuations in different molecular wire junctions and identified molecular wires with lower electrical noise, which can provide critical information for designing low-noise molecular electronic devices. Our method provides valuable insights regarding noise phenomena in molecular wires and can be a powerful tool for the development of molecular electronic devices.
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Xin N, Wang J, Jia C, Liu Z, Zhang X, Yu C, Li M, Wang S, Gong Y, Sun H, Zhang G, Liu Z, Zhang G, Liao J, Zhang D, Guo X. Stereoelectronic Effect-Induced Conductance Switching in Aromatic Chain Single-Molecule Junctions. NANO LETTERS 2017; 17:856-861. [PMID: 28071918 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.6b04139] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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Biphenyl, as the elementary unit of organic functional materials, has been widely used in electronic and optoelectronic devices. However, over decades little has been fundamentally understood regarding how the intramolecular conformation of biphenyl dynamically affects its transport properties at the single-molecule level. Here, we establish the stereoelectronic effect of biphenyl on its electrical conductance based on the platform of graphene-molecule single-molecule junctions, where a specifically designed hexaphenyl aromatic chain molecule is covalently sandwiched between nanogapped graphene point contacts to create stable single-molecule junctions. Both theoretical and temperature-dependent experimental results consistently demonstrate that phenyl twisting in the aromatic chain molecule produces different microstates with different degrees of conjugation, thus leading to stochastic switching between high- and low-conductance states. These investigations offer new molecular design insights into building functional single-molecule electrical devices.
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- Na Xin
- 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, 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, China
- Department of Applied Physics, University of Tokyo , Hongo, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan
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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, China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, CAS Key Laboratory of Organic Solids, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences , Beijing 100190, China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, CAS Key Laboratory of Organic Solids, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences , Beijing 100190, China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, CAS Key Laboratory of Organic Solids, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences , Beijing 100190, 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, China
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- Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences , Beijing 100190, 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, China
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- Key Laboratory for the Physics and Chemistry of Nanodevices, Department of Electronics, Peking University , Beijing 100871, China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, CAS Key Laboratory of Organic Solids, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences , Beijing 100190, 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, China
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- Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences , Beijing 100190, People's Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory for the Physics and Chemistry of Nanodevices, Department of Electronics, Peking University , Beijing 100871, China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, CAS Key Laboratory of Organic Solids, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences , Beijing 100190, 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, China
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, College of Engineering, Peking University , Beijing 100871, China
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Nuin E, Bauer W, Hirsch A. Synthesis of Magnetic Molecular Complexes with Fullerene Anchor Groups. European J Org Chem 2017. [DOI: 10.1002/ejoc.201601356] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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- Edurne Nuin
- Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy; Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg; Organische Chemie II; Henkestrasse 42 91054 Erlangen Germany
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- Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy; Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg; Organische Chemie II; Henkestrasse 42 91054 Erlangen Germany
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- Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy; Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg; Organische Chemie II; Henkestrasse 42 91054 Erlangen Germany
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Xiang D, Wang X, Jia C, Lee T, Guo X. Molecular-Scale Electronics: From Concept to Function. Chem Rev 2016; 116:4318-440. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.5b00680] [Citation(s) in RCA: 816] [Impact Index Per Article: 102.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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- Dong Xiang
- 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, China
- Key
Laboratory of Optical Information Science and Technology, Institute
of Modern Optics, College of Electronic Information and Optical Engineering, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, 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, 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, China
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- Department
of Physics and Astronomy, and Institute of Applied Physics, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, Korea
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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, China
- Department
of Materials Science and Engineering, College of Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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Cao L, Yang M, Yuan L, Nerngchamnong N, Feng YP, Wee ATS, Qi DC, Nijhuis CA. Orbital dependent ultrafast charge transfer dynamics of ferrocenyl-functionalized SAMs on gold studied by core-hole clock spectroscopy. JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. CONDENSED MATTER : AN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS JOURNAL 2016; 28:094006. [PMID: 26870989 DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/28/9/094006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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Understanding the charge transport properties in general of different molecular components in a self-assembled monolayer (SAM) is of importance for the rational design of SAM molecular structures for molecular electronics. In this study, we study an important aspect of the charge transport properties, i.e. the charge transfer (CT) dynamics between the active molecular component (in this case, the ferrocenyl moieties of a ferrocenyl-n-alkanethiol SAM) and the electrode using synchrotron-based core-hole clock (CHC) spectroscopy. The characteristic CT times are found to depend strongly on the character of the ferrocenyl-derived molecular orbitals (MOs) which mediate the CT process. Furthermore, by systemically shifting the position of the ferrocenyl moiety in the SAM, it is found that the CT characteristics of the ferrocenyl MOs display distinct dependence on its distance to the electrode. These results demonstrate experimentally that the efficiency and rate of charge transport through the molecular backbone can be modulated by resonant injection of charge carriers into specific MOs.
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- Liang Cao
- Department of Chemistry, National University of Singapore, 3 Science Drive 3, Singapore 117543, Singapore. High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 350 Shushanhu Road, Hefei 230031, Anhui, People's Republic of China. Department of Physics, National University of Singapore, 2 Science Drive 3, Singapore 117542, Singapore
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Aragonès AC, Aravena D, Cerdá JI, Acís-Castillo Z, Li H, Real JA, Sanz F, Hihath J, Ruiz E, Díez-Pérez I. Large Conductance Switching in a Single-Molecule Device through Room Temperature Spin-Dependent Transport. NANO LETTERS 2016; 16:218-26. [PMID: 26675052 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.5b03571] [Citation(s) in RCA: 105] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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Controlling the spin of electrons in nanoscale electronic devices is one of the most promising topics aiming at developing devices with rapid and high density information storage capabilities. The interface magnetism or spinterface resulting from the interaction between a magnetic molecule and a metal surface, or vice versa, has become a key ingredient in creating nanoscale molecular devices with novel functionalities. Here, we present a single-molecule wire that displays large (>10000%) conductance switching by controlling the spin-dependent transport under ambient conditions (room temperature in a liquid cell). The molecular wire is built by trapping individual spin crossover Fe(II) complexes between one Au electrode and one ferromagnetic Ni electrode in an organic liquid medium. Large changes in the single-molecule conductance (>100-fold) are measured when the electrons flow from the Au electrode to either an α-up or a β-down spin-polarized Ni electrode. Our calculations show that the current flowing through such an interface appears to be strongly spin-polarized, thus resulting in the observed switching of the single-molecule wire conductance. The observation of such a high spin-dependent conductance switching in a single-molecule wire opens up a new door for the design and control of spin-polarized transport in nanoscale molecular devices at room temperature.
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- Albert C Aragonès
- Departament de Química Física, Universitat de Barcelona , Martí i Franquès 1, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
- Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) , Baldiri Reixac 15-21, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
- Centro Investigación Biomédica en Red (CIBER-BBN) , Campus Río Ebro-Edificio I+D, Poeta Mariano Esquillor s/n, 50018 Zaragoza, Spain
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- Departament de Química Inorgànica and Institut de Química Teòrica i Computacional, Universitat de Barcelona , Diagonal 645, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
- Departamento de Química de los Materiales, Facultad de Química y Biología, Universidad de Santiago de Chile (USACH) , Casilla 40, Correo 33, Santiago, Chile
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- Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid, CSIC, Cantoblanco , 28049 Madrid, Spain
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- Institut de Ciència Molecular (ICMol), Universitat de València , 46980 Paterna, València, Spain
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- Department of Electrical and Computing Engineering, University of California-Davis , 2064 Kemper Hall, Davis, California 95616, United States
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- Institut de Ciència Molecular (ICMol), Universitat de València , 46980 Paterna, València, Spain
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- Departament de Química Física, Universitat de Barcelona , Martí i Franquès 1, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
- Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) , Baldiri Reixac 15-21, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
- Centro Investigación Biomédica en Red (CIBER-BBN) , Campus Río Ebro-Edificio I+D, Poeta Mariano Esquillor s/n, 50018 Zaragoza, Spain
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- Department of Electrical and Computing Engineering, University of California-Davis , 2064 Kemper Hall, Davis, California 95616, United States
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- Departament de Química Inorgànica and Institut de Química Teòrica i Computacional, Universitat de Barcelona , Diagonal 645, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
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- Departament de Química Física, Universitat de Barcelona , Martí i Franquès 1, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
- Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) , Baldiri Reixac 15-21, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
- Centro Investigación Biomédica en Red (CIBER-BBN) , Campus Río Ebro-Edificio I+D, Poeta Mariano Esquillor s/n, 50018 Zaragoza, Spain
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Li J, Li T, Zhou Y, Wu W, Zhang L, Li H. Distinctive electron transport on pyridine-linked molecular junctions with narrow monolayer graphene nanoribbon electrodes compared with metal electrodes and graphene electrodes. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2016; 18:28217-28226. [DOI: 10.1039/c6cp05007g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The electrodes in the molecular devices are essential for creating functional organic electronic devices.
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- Jie Li
- Key Laboratory for Liquid-Solid Structural Evolution and Processing of Materials
- Ministry of Education
- Shandong University
- Jinan 250061
- People's Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory for Liquid-Solid Structural Evolution and Processing of Materials
- Ministry of Education
- Shandong University
- Jinan 250061
- People's Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory for Liquid-Solid Structural Evolution and Processing of Materials
- Ministry of Education
- Shandong University
- Jinan 250061
- People's Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory for Liquid-Solid Structural Evolution and Processing of Materials
- Ministry of Education
- Shandong University
- Jinan 250061
- People's Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory for Liquid-Solid Structural Evolution and Processing of Materials
- Ministry of Education
- Shandong University
- Jinan 250061
- People's Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory for Liquid-Solid Structural Evolution and Processing of Materials
- Ministry of Education
- Shandong University
- Jinan 250061
- People's Republic of China
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Pla-Vilanova P, Aragonès AC, Ciampi S, Sanz F, Darwish N, Diez-Perez I. The spontaneous formation of single-molecule junctions via terminal alkynes. NANOTECHNOLOGY 2015; 26:381001. [PMID: 26314486 DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/26/38/381001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/13/2023]
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Herein, we report the spontaneous formation of single-molecule junctions via terminal alkyne contact groups. Self-assembled monolayers that form spontaneously from diluted solutions of 1, 4-diethynylbenzene (DEB) were used to build single-molecule contacts and assessed using the scanning tunneling microscopy-break junction technique (STM-BJ). The STM-BJ technique in both its dynamic and static approaches was used to characterize the lifetime (stability) and the conductivity of a single-DEB wire. It is demonstrated that single-molecule junctions form spontaneously with terminal alkynes and require no electrochemical control or chemical deprotonation. The alkyne anchoring group was compared against typical contact groups exploited in single-molecule studies, i.e. amine (benzenediamine) and thiol (benzendithiol) contact groups. The alkyne contact showed a conductance magnitude comparable to that observed with amine and thiol groups. The lifetime of the junctions formed from alkynes were only slightly less than that of thiols and greater than that observed for amines. These findings are important as (a) they extend the repertoire of chemical contacts used in single-molecule measurements to 1-alkynes, which are synthetically accessible and stable and (b) alkynes have a remarkable affinity toward silicon surfaces, hence opening the door for the study of single-molecule transport on a semiconducting electronic platform.
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- Pepita Pla-Vilanova
- Departament de Química Física, Universitat de Barcelona, Diagonal 645, and Institut de Bioenginyeria de Catalunya (IBEC), Baldiri Reixac 15-21, E-08028 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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Jafri SHM, Löfås H, Blom T, Wallner A, Grigoriev A, Ahuja R, Ottosson H, Leifer K. Nano-fabrication of molecular electronic junctions by targeted modification of metal-molecule bonds. Sci Rep 2015; 5:14431. [PMID: 26395225 PMCID: PMC5155674 DOI: 10.1038/srep14431] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/20/2015] [Accepted: 08/25/2015] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Reproducibility, stability and the coupling between electrical and molecular properties are central challenges in the field of molecular electronics. The field not only needs devices that fulfill these criteria but they also need to be up-scalable to application size. In this work, few-molecule based electronics devices with reproducible electrical characteristics are demonstrated. Our previously reported 5 nm gold nanoparticles (AuNP) coated with ω-triphenylmethyl (trityl) protected 1,8-octanedithiol molecules are trapped in between sub-20 nm gap spacing gold nanoelectrodes forming AuNP-molecule network. When the trityl groups are removed, reproducible devices and stable Au-thiol junctions are established on both ends of the alkane segment. The resistance of more than 50 devices is reduced by orders of magnitude as well as a reduction of the spread in the resistance histogram is observed. By density functional theory calculations the orders of magnitude decrease in resistance can be explained and supported by TEM observations thus indicating that the resistance changes and strongly improved resistance spread are related to the establishment of reproducible and stable metal-molecule bonds. The same experimental sequence is carried out using 1,6-hexanedithiol functionalized AuNPs. The average resistances as a function of molecular length, demonstrated herein, are comparable to the one found in single molecule devices.
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- S. Hassan M. Jafri
- Applied Materials Science, Department of Engineering Sciences, Uppsala University, Box 534, Uppsala SE-75121, Sweden
- Department of Electrical Engineering, Mirpur University of Science and Technology, Mirpur Azad Jammu and Kashmir 10250, Pakistan
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Uppsala University, Box 516, Uppsala SE-75120, Sweden
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- Applied Materials Science, Department of Engineering Sciences, Uppsala University, Box 534, Uppsala SE-75121, Sweden
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- Department of Chemistry - BMC, Uppsala University, Box 576, Uppsala SE-75123, Sweden
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Uppsala University, Box 516, Uppsala SE-75120, Sweden
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Uppsala University, Box 516, Uppsala SE-75120, Sweden
- Applied Material Physics, Department of Materials and Engineering, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm SE-10044, Sweden
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- Department of Chemistry - BMC, Uppsala University, Box 576, Uppsala SE-75123, Sweden
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- Applied Materials Science, Department of Engineering Sciences, Uppsala University, Box 534, Uppsala SE-75121, Sweden
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Liu Y, Yuan H, Fales AM, Register JK, Vo-Dinh T. Multifunctional gold nanostars for molecular imaging and cancer therapy. Front Chem 2015; 3:51. [PMID: 26322306 PMCID: PMC4533003 DOI: 10.3389/fchem.2015.00051] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/01/2015] [Accepted: 07/30/2015] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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Plasmonics-active gold nanoparticles offer excellent potential in molecular imaging and cancer therapy. Among them, gold nanostars (AuNS) exhibit cross-platform flexibility as multimodal contrast agents for macroscopic X-ray computer tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), positron emission tomography (PET), as well as nanoprobes for photoacoustic tomography (PAT), two-photon photoluminescence (TPL), and surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS). Their surfactant-free surface enables versatile functionalization to enhance cancer targeting, and allow triggered drug release. AuNS can also be used as an efficient platform for drug carrying, photothermal therapy, and photodynamic therapy (PDT). This review paper presents the latest progress regarding AuNS as a promising nanoplatform for cancer nanotheranostics. Future research directions with AuNS for biomedical applications will also be discussed.
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- Yang Liu
- Fitzpatrick Institute for Photonics, Duke University Durham, NC, USA ; Department of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University Durham, NC, USA ; Department of Chemistry, Duke University Durham, NC, USA
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- Fitzpatrick Institute for Photonics, Duke University Durham, NC, USA ; Department of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University Durham, NC, USA
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- Fitzpatrick Institute for Photonics, Duke University Durham, NC, USA ; Department of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University Durham, NC, USA
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- Fitzpatrick Institute for Photonics, Duke University Durham, NC, USA ; Department of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University Durham, NC, USA
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- Fitzpatrick Institute for Photonics, Duke University Durham, NC, USA ; Department of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University Durham, NC, USA ; Department of Chemistry, Duke University Durham, NC, USA
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Li F, Basile VM, Rose MJ. Electron Transfer through Surface-Grown, Ferrocene-Capped Oligophenylene Molecular Wires (5-50 Å) on n-Si(111) Photoelectrodes. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2015; 31:7712-7716. [PMID: 26153919 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.5b02121] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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We report the surface growth of oligophenylene molecular wires on Si(111) substrates and their electron-transfer (ET) properties. Iterative wire growth of biphenylene was achieved via Pd-catalyzed Negishi reactions for lengths of nphenyl = 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, and 12 (d ≈ 5-50 Å). The triflato-capped wires were functionalized with vinylferrocene for potentiometric studies. For the oligophenylenes of nphenyl = 1, 2, and 4 (wire length d ≈ 5-20 Å), there was a strong distance dependence (kapp = 22.6, 16.0, 8.40 s(-1), respectively), correlated to β = 0.07 Å(-1). In contrast, longer oligophenylenes for nphenyl = 4-12 (d ≈ 20-50 Å) displayed a negligible distance dependence with an ET rate of kapp ≈ 10.0 ± 1.6 s(-1). These data suggest a distance-dependent tunneling mechanism at short lengths (d < 20 Å) and a distance-independent ET at longer lengths (d > 20 Å).
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- Feng Li
- Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712-1224, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712-1224, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712-1224, United States
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Nichols RJ, Higgins SJ. Single-Molecule Electronics: Chemical and Analytical Perspectives. ANNUAL REVIEW OF ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY (PALO ALTO, CALIF.) 2015; 8:389-417. [PMID: 26048551 DOI: 10.1146/annurev-anchem-071114-040118] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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It is now possible to measure the electrical properties of single molecules using a variety of techniques including scanning probe microcopies and mechanically controlled break junctions. Such measurements can be made across a wide range of environments including ambient conditions, organic liquids, ionic liquids, aqueous solutions, electrolytes, and ultra high vacuum. This has given new insights into charge transport across molecule electrical junctions, and these experimental methods have been complemented with increasingly sophisticated theory. This article reviews progress in single-molecule electronics from a chemical perspective and discusses topics such as the molecule-surface coupling in electrical junctions, chemical control, and supramolecular interactions in junctions and gating charge transport. The article concludes with an outlook regarding chemical analysis based on single-molecule conductance.
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- Richard J Nichols
- Department of Chemistry, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 7ZD, United Kingdom;
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Osorio HM, Martín S, López MC, Marqués-González S, Higgins SJ, Nichols RJ, Low PJ, Cea P. Electrical characterization of single molecule and Langmuir-Blodgett monomolecular films of a pyridine-terminated oligo(phenylene-ethynylene) derivative. BEILSTEIN JOURNAL OF NANOTECHNOLOGY 2015; 6:1145-57. [PMID: 26171291 PMCID: PMC4464395 DOI: 10.3762/bjnano.6.116] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/16/2014] [Accepted: 04/13/2015] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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Monolayer Langmuir-Blodgett (LB) films of 1,4-bis(pyridin-4-ylethynyl)benzene (1) together with the "STM touch-to-contact" method have been used to study the nature of metal-monolayer-metal junctions in which the pyridyl group provides the contact at both molecule-surface interfaces. Surface pressure vs area per molecule isotherms and Brewster angle microscopy images indicate that 1 forms true monolayers at the air-water interface. LB films of 1 were fabricated by deposition of the Langmuir films onto solid supports resulting in monolayers with surface coverage of 0.98 × 10(-9) mol·cm(-2). The morphology of the LB films that incorporate compound 1 was studied using atomic force microscopy (AFM). AFM images indicate the formation of homogeneous, monomolecular films at a surface pressure of transference of 16 mN·m(-1). The UV-vis spectra of the Langmuir and LB films reveal that 1 forms two dimensional J-aggregates. Scanning tunneling microscopy (STM), in particular the "STM touch-to-contact" method, was used to determine the electrical properties of LB films of 1. From these STM studies symmetrical I-V curves were obtained. A junction conductance of 5.17 × 10(-5) G 0 results from the analysis of the pseudolinear (ohmic) region of the I-V curves. This value is higher than that of the conductance values of LB films of phenylene-ethynylene derivatives contacted by amines, thiols, carboxylate, trimethylsilylethynyl or acetylide groups. In addition, the single molecule I-V curve of 1 determined using the I(s) method is in good agreement with the I-V curve obtained for the LB film, and both curves fit well with the Simmons model. Together, these results not only indicate that the mechanism of transport through these metal-molecule-metal junctions is non-resonant tunneling, but that lateral interactions between molecules within the LB film do not strongly influence the molecule conductance. The results presented here complement earlier studies of single molecule conductance of 1 using STM-BJ methods, and support the growing evidence that the pyridyl group is an efficient and effective anchoring group in sandwiched metal-monolayer-metal junctions prepared under a number of different conditions.
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- Henrry Marcelo Osorio
- Departamento de Química Física, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Zaragoza, 50009 Zaragoza, Spain
- Instituto de Nanociencia de Aragón (INA), Edificio I+D, Campus Rio Ebro, Universidad de Zaragoza, C/Mariano Esquillor s/n, 50017 Zaragoza, Spain
- Laboratorio de Microscopias Avanzadas (LMA) C/Mariano Esquilor s/n, Campus Rio Ebro, 50018 Zaragoza, Spain
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- Departamento de Química Física, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Zaragoza, 50009 Zaragoza, Spain
- Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Aragón (ICMA), Universidad de Zaragoza-CSIC, 50009 Zaragoza, Spain
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- Departamento de Química Física, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Zaragoza, 50009 Zaragoza, Spain
- Instituto de Nanociencia de Aragón (INA), Edificio I+D, Campus Rio Ebro, Universidad de Zaragoza, C/Mariano Esquillor s/n, 50017 Zaragoza, Spain
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Liverpool, Crown Street, Liverpool L69 7ZD, United Kingdom
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Liverpool, Crown Street, Liverpool L69 7ZD, United Kingdom
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Durham, Durham DH1 3LE, United Kingdom
- School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Western Australia, Crawley 6009, WA, Australia
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- Departamento de Química Física, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Zaragoza, 50009 Zaragoza, Spain
- Instituto de Nanociencia de Aragón (INA), Edificio I+D, Campus Rio Ebro, Universidad de Zaragoza, C/Mariano Esquillor s/n, 50017 Zaragoza, Spain
- Laboratorio de Microscopias Avanzadas (LMA) C/Mariano Esquilor s/n, Campus Rio Ebro, 50018 Zaragoza, Spain
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Scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and scanning tunneling spectroscopy (STS) can characterize intriguing nanoparticle properties towards solid-state nanodevices.
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- Shinya Kano
- Materials and Structures Laboratory
- Tokyo Institute of Technology
- Yokohama 226-8503
- Japan
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- Materials and Structures Laboratory
- Tokyo Institute of Technology
- Yokohama 226-8503
- Japan
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- Materials and Structures Laboratory
- Tokyo Institute of Technology
- Yokohama 226-8503
- Japan
- Department of Printed Electronics Engineering
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Nemnes GA, Visan C. Electron transport properties of fulgide-based photochromic switches. RSC Adv 2015. [DOI: 10.1039/c4ra14752a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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The transport properties of fulgide-based photochromic switches are investigated in the framework of density functional theory calculations.
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- G. A. Nemnes
- University of Bucharest
- Faculty of Physics
- Materials and Devices for Electronics and Optoelectronics Research Center
- Romania
- Horia Hulubei National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering (IFIN-HH)
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- Horia Hulubei National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering (IFIN-HH)
- Romania
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Zhang JL, Zhong JQ, Lin JD, Hu WP, Wu K, Xu GQ, Wee ATS, Chen W. Towards single molecule switches. Chem Soc Rev 2015; 44:2998-3022. [DOI: 10.1039/c4cs00377b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 247] [Impact Index Per Article: 27.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Scanning tunneling microscope (STM) controlled reversible switching of a single-dipole molecule imbedded in hydrogen-bonded binary molecular networks on graphite.
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- Jia Lin Zhang
- Department of Chemistry
- National University of Singapore
- Singapore
- Department of Physics
- National University of Singapore
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- Department of Chemistry
- National University of Singapore
- Singapore
- Department of Physics
- National University of Singapore
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- Department of Chemistry
- National University of Singapore
- Singapore
- Department of Physics
- National University of Singapore
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- School of Science
- Tianjin University
- Tian Jin
- China
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- Singapore-Peking University Research Center for a Sustainable Low-Carbon Future
- Singapore
- College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering
- Peking University
- Beijing 100871
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- Department of Chemistry
- National University of Singapore
- Singapore
- Singapore-Peking University Research Center for a Sustainable Low-Carbon Future
- Singapore
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- Department of Chemistry
- National University of Singapore
- Singapore
- Department of Physics
- National University of Singapore
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Wu H, Sotthewes K, Schön PM, Vancso GJ, Zandvliet HJW. Ordering and dynamics of oligo(phenylene ethynylene) self-assembled monolayers on Au(111). RSC Adv 2015. [DOI: 10.1039/c5ra03577e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Striped-phase of oligo(phenylene ethynylene) molecules on Au(111).
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- Hairong Wu
- Physics of Interfaces and Nanomaterials
- MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology
- University of Twente
- 7500 AE Enschede
- The Netherlands
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- Physics of Interfaces and Nanomaterials
- MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology
- University of Twente
- 7500 AE Enschede
- The Netherlands
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- Materials Science and Technology of Polymers
- MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology
- University of Twente
- 7500 AE Enschede
- The Netherlands
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- Materials Science and Technology of Polymers
- MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology
- University of Twente
- 7500 AE Enschede
- The Netherlands
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- Physics of Interfaces and Nanomaterials
- MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology
- University of Twente
- 7500 AE Enschede
- The Netherlands
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Zhang D, Long M, Zhang X, Xu H. High performance bipolar spin filtering and switching functions of poly-(terphenylene-butadiynylene) between zigzag graphene nanoribbon electrodes. RSC Adv 2015. [DOI: 10.1039/c5ra17504f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023] Open
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Using the nonequilibrium Green’s function method combined with spin-polarized DFT, we investigate the spin-resolved electronic transport properties of devices made of poly-(terphenylene-butadiynylene) (PTB) between zigzag graphene nanoribbon (ZGNR) electrodes.
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- Dan Zhang
- Institute of Super-microstructure and Ultrafast Process in Advanced Materials
- School of Physics and Electronics
- Central South University
- Changsha 410083
- China
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- Institute of Super-microstructure and Ultrafast Process in Advanced Materials
- School of Physics and Electronics
- Central South University
- Changsha 410083
- China
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- Physical Science and Technology College of Yichun University
- Yichun 336000
- China
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- Institute of Super-microstructure and Ultrafast Process in Advanced Materials
- School of Physics and Electronics
- Central South University
- Changsha 410083
- China
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Xiang D, Lee T, Kim Y, Mei T, Wang Q. Origin of discrete current fluctuations in a single molecule junction. NANOSCALE 2014; 6:13396-13401. [PMID: 25271483 DOI: 10.1039/c4nr03480e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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A series of fresh molecular junctions at a single molecule level were created and the current fluctuations were studied as electrons passed through them. Our results indicate that telegraph-like current fluctuations at room temperature neither originate from electron trapping/detrapping processes nor from molecule re-conformation. Our results will be helpful in better understanding the mechanism of current fluctuations.
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- Dong Xiang
- School of Mathematics and Physics, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, China
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Wu H, Sotthewes K, Méndez-Ardoy A, Kudernac T, Huskens J, Lenferink A, Otto C, Schön PM, Vancso GJ, Zandvliet HJ. Dynamics of oligo(phenylene-ethynylene) self-assembled monolayers on Au(1 1 1). Chem Phys Lett 2014. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cplett.2014.09.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Hamill JM, Wang K, Xu B. Force and conductance molecular break junctions with time series crosscorrelation. NANOSCALE 2014; 6:5657-5661. [PMID: 24764040 DOI: 10.1039/c4nr00654b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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Force and conductance, measured across 4,4'-bipyridine simultaneously, are crosscorrelated using a two dimensional (2D) histogram method. The result is a 2D multivariate statistical analysis superior to current one dimensional histogram techniques for exploring significant conductance and force modulations within SMBJs. This method is sensitive enough to crosscorrelate signal modulations between force and conductance traces associated with contact geometry perturbations predicted in literature such as Au-molecule contact twisting and slipping during junction elongation.
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- Joseph M Hamill
- Single Molecule Study Laboratory, College of Engineering and Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA.
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Bhattarai A, Mazur U, Hipps KW. A single molecule level study of the temperature-dependent kinetics for the formation of metal porphyrin monolayers on Au(111) from solution. J Am Chem Soc 2014; 136:2142-8. [PMID: 24405275 DOI: 10.1021/ja412648x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Scanning tunneling microscopy was used to make the first molecular scale measurements of the temperature dependence of composition of an adlayer at the solution-solid interface. We conclusively demonstrate that metal porphyrins adsorb very strongly on Au(111) at the solution solid interface such that the monolayer composition is entirely kinetically controlled below about 100 °C. The barrier for desorption is so great in fact that a temperature of 135 °C is required to induce desorption over a period of hours. Moreover, cobalt(II) octaethylporphyrin (CoOEP) and NiOEP desorb at different rates from different sites on the surface. We have measured the rate constant for desorption of CoOEP into phenyloctane to be 6.7 × 10(-5)/s at 135 °C. On the basis of these measurements, an upper bound can be set for the desorption rate of NiOEP into phenyloctane as 6.7 × 10(-4)/s at 135 °C. For solutions of the order of 100 μM in NiOEP or CoOEP, a dense monolayer is formed within seconds, and the adsorption rate constants fall within 40% of each other. The structures of NiOEP and CoOEP monolayers are essentially identical, and the molecular spacing for both can be described by A = 1.42 ± 0.02 nm, B = 1.32 ± 0.02 nm, and α = 57° ± 2°. The solubility of CoOEP and NiOEP in phenyloctane at room temperature was measured to be 0.228 and 0.319 g/L, respectively.
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- Ashish Bhattarai
- Department of Chemistry, Washington State University , Pullman, Washington 99164-4630, United States
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Meng F, Hervault YM, Shao Q, Hu B, Norel L, Rigaut S, Chen X. Orthogonally modulated molecular transport junctions for resettable electronic logic gates. Nat Commun 2014; 5:3023. [PMID: 24394717 PMCID: PMC3896775 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 143] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/28/2013] [Accepted: 11/25/2013] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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Individual molecules have been demonstrated to exhibit promising applications as functional components in the fabrication of computing nanocircuits. Based on their advantage in chemical tailorability, many molecular devices with advanced electronic functions have been developed, which can be further modulated by the introduction of external stimuli. Here, orthogonally modulated molecular transport junctions are achieved via chemically fabricated nanogaps functionalized with dithienylethene units bearing organometallic ruthenium fragments. The addressable and stepwise control of molecular isomerization can be repeatedly and reversibly completed with a judicious use of the orthogonal optical and electrochemical stimuli to reach the controllable switching of conductivity between two distinct states. These photo-/electro-cooperative nanodevices can be applied as resettable electronic logic gates for Boolean computing, such as a two-input OR and a three-input AND-OR. The proof-of-concept of such logic gates demonstrates the possibility to develop multifunctional molecular devices by rational chemical design.
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- Fanben Meng
- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 50 Nanyang Avenue, Singapore 639798, Singapore
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- Institut des Sciences Chimiques de Rennes, UMR 6226 CNRS—Université de Rennes 1, 263 Avenue du Général Leclerc, F-35042 Rennes cedex, France
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 50 Nanyang Avenue, Singapore 639798, Singapore
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 50 Nanyang Avenue, Singapore 639798, Singapore
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- Institut des Sciences Chimiques de Rennes, UMR 6226 CNRS—Université de Rennes 1, 263 Avenue du Général Leclerc, F-35042 Rennes cedex, France
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- Institut des Sciences Chimiques de Rennes, UMR 6226 CNRS—Université de Rennes 1, 263 Avenue du Général Leclerc, F-35042 Rennes cedex, France
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 50 Nanyang Avenue, Singapore 639798, Singapore
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Uosaki K, Fukumitsu H, Masuda T, Qu D. Construction of a metal–organic monolayer–semiconductor junction on a hydrogen-terminated Si(111) surface via Si–C covalent linkage and its electrical properties. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2014; 16:9960-5. [DOI: 10.1039/c3cp54619e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Balko SM, Kreer T, Mulder DJ, Costanzo PJ, Patten TE, Kuhl TL. Using Thiol–Gold Bond Formation To Bridge Surfaces with a Polymer Brush: SFA Experiments and MD Simulations. Macromolecules 2013. [DOI: 10.1021/ma4015356] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Suzanne M. Balko
- Department
of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of California, Davis, California 95616, United States
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- Leibniz Institut für Polymerforschung Dresden, Dresden, Germany
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- Department
of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of California, Davis, California 95616, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry and Biochemistry, California Polytechnic State University, San
Luis Obispo, California 93407, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, University of California, Davis, California 95616, United States
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- Department
of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of California, Davis, California 95616, United States
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Kang H, Noh J. Influence of Thiol Molecular Backbone Structure on the Formation and Reductive Desorption of Self-Assembled Aromatic and Alicyclic Thiol Monolayers on Au(111) Surface. B KOREAN CHEM SOC 2013. [DOI: 10.5012/bkcs.2013.34.5.1383] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Sakamoto R, Katagiri S, Maeda H, Nishihara H. Triarylamine-conjugated Bis(terpyridine)–Iron(II) Complex Wires: Rapid and Long-range Electron-transport Ability. CHEM LETT 2013. [DOI: 10.1246/cl.130083] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Ryota Sakamoto
- Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo
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- Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo
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- Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo
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- Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo
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Sakamoto R, Katagiri S, Maeda H, Nishihara H. Bis(terpyridine) metal complex wires: Excellent long-range electron transfer ability and controllable intrawire redox conduction on silicon electrode. Coord Chem Rev 2013. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ccr.2012.08.025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 108] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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