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Devid EJ, Martinho PN, Kamalakar MV, Šalitroš I, Prendergast Ú, Dayen JF, Meded V, Lemma T, González-Prieto R, Evers F, Keyes TE, Ruben M, Doudin B, van der Molen SJ. Spin transition in arrays of gold nanoparticles and spin crossover molecules. ACS Nano 2015; 9:4496-4507. [PMID: 25835284 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5b01103] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
Abstract
We investigate if the functionality of spin crossover molecules is preserved when they are assembled into an interfacial device structure. Specifically, we prepare and investigate gold nanoparticle arrays, into which room-temperature spin crossover molecules are introduced, more precisely, [Fe(AcS-BPP)2](ClO4)2, where AcS-BPP = (S)-(4-{[2,6-(dipyrazol-1-yl)pyrid-4-yl]ethynyl}phenyl)ethanethioate (in short, Fe(S-BPP)2). We combine three complementary experiments to characterize the molecule-nanoparticle structure in detail. Temperature-dependent Raman measurements provide direct evidence for a (partial) spin transition in the Fe(S-BPP)2-based arrays. This transition is qualitatively confirmed by magnetization measurements. Finally, charge transport measurements on the Fe(S-BPP)2-gold nanoparticle devices reveal a minimum in device resistance versus temperature, R(T), curves around 260-290 K. This is in contrast to similar networks containing passive molecules only that show monotonically decreasing R(T) characteristics. Backed by density functional theory calculations on single molecular conductance values for both spin states, we propose to relate the resistance minimum in R(T) to a spin transition under the hypothesis that (1) the molecular resistance of the high spin state is larger than that of the low spin state and (2) transport in the array is governed by a percolation model.
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Affiliation(s)
- Edwin J Devid
- †Huygens-Kamerlingh Onnes Laboratory, Leiden Institute of Physics, Leiden University P.O. Box 9504, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands
| | - Paulo N Martinho
- ‡Centro de Química e Bioquímica (CQB), Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Campo Grande, 1749-016 Lisboa, Portugal
- ∥Institute of Nanotechnology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Hermann-von-Helmholtz-Platz 1, 76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany
| | - M Venkata Kamalakar
- §Department of Microtechnology and Nanoscience, Chalmers University of Technology, SE-41296 Göteborg, Sweden
| | - Ivan Šalitroš
- ∥Institute of Nanotechnology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Hermann-von-Helmholtz-Platz 1, 76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany
- ◊Department of Inorganic Chemistry, Faculty of Chemical and Food Technology, Slovak University of Technology, Radlinskeho 9, SK-812 37, Bratislava, Slovakia
| | - Úna Prendergast
- ⊥School of Chemical Sciences, Dublin City University, Dublin 9, Ireland
| | - Jean-François Dayen
- #Institut de Physique et Chimie des Matériaux de Strasbourg (IPCMS), CNRS UMR 7504, Laboratory NIE, Université de Strasbourg, 23 Rue du Loess, 67034 Strasbourg, France
| | - Velimir Meded
- ∥Institute of Nanotechnology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Hermann-von-Helmholtz-Platz 1, 76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany
| | - Tibebe Lemma
- ⊥School of Chemical Sciences, Dublin City University, Dublin 9, Ireland
| | - Rodrigo González-Prieto
- ∥Institute of Nanotechnology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Hermann-von-Helmholtz-Platz 1, 76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany
- ¶Departamento de Química Inorgánica, Facultad de Ciencias Químicas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Ciudad Universitaria, E-28040 Madrid, Spain
| | - Ferdinand Evers
- ∥Institute of Nanotechnology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Hermann-von-Helmholtz-Platz 1, 76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany
- △Institut für Theorie der Kondensierten Materie, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Wolfgang-Gaede-Straße 1, D-76128 Karlsruhe, Germany
| | - Tia E Keyes
- ⊥School of Chemical Sciences, Dublin City University, Dublin 9, Ireland
| | - Mario Ruben
- ∥Institute of Nanotechnology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Hermann-von-Helmholtz-Platz 1, 76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany
- #Institut de Physique et Chimie des Matériaux de Strasbourg (IPCMS), CNRS UMR 7504, Laboratory NIE, Université de Strasbourg, 23 Rue du Loess, 67034 Strasbourg, France
| | - Bernard Doudin
- #Institut de Physique et Chimie des Matériaux de Strasbourg (IPCMS), CNRS UMR 7504, Laboratory NIE, Université de Strasbourg, 23 Rue du Loess, 67034 Strasbourg, France
| | - Sense Jan van der Molen
- †Huygens-Kamerlingh Onnes Laboratory, Leiden Institute of Physics, Leiden University P.O. Box 9504, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands
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