Smart eutectic gallium–indium: from properties to applications

Z Zhao, S Soni, T Lee, CA Nijhuis… - Advanced Materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Eutectic gallium–indium (EGaIn), a liquid metal with a melting point close to or
below room temperature, has attracted extensive attention in recent years due to its …

Gallium liquid metal: the devil's elixir

SY Tang, C Tabor, K Kalantar-Zadeh… - Annual Review of …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Gallium is a metal that literally melts in your hand. It has low toxicity, near-zero vapor
pressure, and a viscosity similar to water. Despite possessing a surface tension larger than …

Nanoscale molecular rectifiers

R Gupta, JA Fereiro, A Bayat, A Pritam… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
The use of molecules bridged between two electrodes as a stable rectifier is an important
goal in molecular electronics. Until recently, however, and despite extensive experimental …

Molecular-scale electronics: from concept to function

D **ang, X Wang, C Jia, T Lee, X Guo - Chemical reviews, 2016 - ACS Publications
Creating functional electrical circuits using individual or ensemble molecules, often termed
as “molecular-scale electronics”, not only meets the increasing technical demands of the …

Emerging applications of liquid metals featuring surface oxides

MD Dickey - ACS applied materials & interfaces, 2014 - ACS Publications
Gallium and several of its alloys are liquid metals at or near room temperature. Gallium has
low toxicity, essentially no vapor pressure, and a low viscosity. Despite these desirable …

Large-area, ensemble molecular electronics: motivation and challenges

A Vilan, D Aswal, D Cahen - Chemical Reviews, 2017 - ACS Publications
We review charge transport across molecular monolayers, which is central to molecular
electronics (MolEl), using large-area junctions (NmJ). We strive to provide a wide conceptual …

Molecular diodes with rectification ratios exceeding 105 driven by electrostatic interactions

X Chen, M Roemer, L Yuan, W Du, D Thompson… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Molecular diodes operating in the tunnelling regime are intrinsically limited to a maximum
rectification ratio R of∼ 103. To enhance this rectification ratio to values comparable to …

Single-molecular protein-based bioelectronics via electronic transport: fundamentals, devices and applications

T Jiang, BF Zeng, B Zhang, L Tang - Chemical Society Reviews, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Biomolecular electronics is a rapidly growing multidisciplinary field that combines biology,
nanoscience, and engineering to bridge the two important fields of life sciences and …

Charge transport through molecular ensembles: Recent progress in molecular electronics

Y Liu, X Qiu, S Soni, RC Chiechi - Chemical Physics Reviews, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
This review focuses on molecular ensemble junctions in which the individual molecules of a
monolayer each span two electrodes. This geometry favors quantum mechanical tunneling …

Molecular electronics: creating and bridging molecular junctions and promoting its commercialization

T Li, VK Bandari, OG Schmidt - Advanced Materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
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 …