Utilization of Electric Fields to Modulate Molecular Activities on the Nanoscale: From Physical Properties to Chemical Reactions

C Yang, Y Guo, H Zhang, X Guo - Chemical Reviews, 2024 - ACS Publications
As a primary energy source, electricity drives broad fields from everyday electronic circuits to
industrial chemical catalysis. From a chemistry viewpoint, studying electric field effects on …

Towards single-molecule optoelectronic devices

L Chen, A Feng, M Wang, J Liu, W Hong, X Guo… - Science China …, 2018 - Springer
Benefiting from the development of molecular electronics and molecular plasmonics, the
interplay of light and electronic transport in molecular junctions has attracted growing …

Nuclear quantum effects of hydrogen bonds probed by tip-enhanced inelastic electron tunneling

J Guo, JT Lü, Y Feng, J Chen, J Peng, Z Lin, X Meng… - Science, 2016 - science.org
We report the quantitative assessment of nuclear quantum effects on the strength of a single
hydrogen bond formed at a water-salt interface, using tip-enhanced inelastic electron …

Single-molecule photoelectron tunnelling spectroscopy

H Liu, L Chen, H Zhang, Z Yang, J Ye, P Zhou… - Nature Materials, 2023 - nature.com
Experimental map** of transmission is essential for understanding and controlling charge
transport through molecular devices and materials. Here we developed a single-molecule …

Monitoring local electric fields at electrode surfaces using surface enhanced Raman scattering-based Stark-shift spectroscopy during hydrogen evolution reactions

H Shi, Z Cai, J Patrow, B Zhao, Y Wang… - … applied materials & …, 2018 - ACS Publications
We report the use of surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) to measure the vibrational
Stark shifts of surface-bound thiolated-benzonitrile molecules bound to an electrode surface …

Joule heating in single-molecule point contacts studied by tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy

B Cirera, M Wolf, T Kumagai - ACS nano, 2022 - ACS Publications
Heating and cooling in current-carrying molecular junctions is a crucial issue in molecular
electronics. The microscopic mechanism involves complex factors such as energy inputs …

Computational model for electrochemical surface-enhanced Raman scattering: key role of the surface charges and synergy between electromagnetic and charge …

D Aranda, F Garcia-Gonzalez… - Journal of Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
We present a computational model for electrochemical surface-enhanced Raman scattering
(EC-SERS). The surface excess of charge induced by the electrode potential (V el) was …

Mie excitons: Understanding strong coupling in dielectric nanoparticles

C Tserkezis, PAD Gonçalves, C Wolff, F Todisco… - Physical Review B, 2018 - APS
We theoretically analyze the hybrid Mie-exciton optical modes arising from the strong
coupling of excitons in organic dyes or transition-metal dichalcogenides with the Mie …

Vibrational stark effect map** of polaron delocalization in chemically doped conjugated polymers

DA Stanfield, Z Mehmedovic… - Chemistry of Materials, 2021 - ACS Publications
The nitrile vibrational modes of the 2, 3, 5, 6-tetrafluoro-7, 7, 8, 8-tetracyanoquinodimethane
(F4TCNQ) anion occur across a range of different frequencies in doped conjugated …

Single-molecule tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy of C 60 on the Si (111)-(7× 7) surface

B Cirera, S Liu, Y Park, I Hamada, M Wolf… - Physical Chemistry …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (TERS), combined with low-temperature scanning
tunnelling microscopy (STM), has emerged as a highly sensitive method for chemical …