Advances and challenges in single-molecule electron transport

F Evers, R Korytár, S Tewari, JM Van Ruitenbeek - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2020 - APS
Electronic transport properties of single-molecule junctions have been widely measured by
several techniques, including mechanically controllable break junctions, electromigration …

Chemical principles of single-molecule electronics

TA Su, M Neupane, ML Steigerwald… - Nature Reviews …, 2016 - nature.com
The field of single-molecule electronics harnesses expertise from engineering, physics and
chemistry to realize circuit elements at the limit of miniaturization; it is a subfield of …

Quantum interference effects in charge transport through single-molecule junctions: detection, manipulation, and application

J Liu, X Huang, F Wang, W Hong - Accounts of chemical research, 2018 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Quantum interference effects (QIEs), which offer unique opportunities for the
fine-tuning of charge transport through molecular building blocks by constructive or …

Application of azulene in constructing organic optoelectronic materials: New tricks for an old dog

H **n, X Gao - ChemPlusChem, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Azulene, as an isomer of naphthalene, has received increasing interest due to its unique
chemical structure and unusual photophysical properties, including a large dipole moment …

A quantum circuit rule for interference effects in single-molecule electrical junctions

DZ Manrique, C Huang, M Baghernejad, X Zhao… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
A quantum circuit rule for combining quantum interference effects in the conductive
properties of oligo (phenyleneethynylene)(OPE)-type molecules possessing three aromatic …

Radical single-molecule junctions

L Li, CR Prindle, W Shi, C Nuckolls… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Radicals are unique molecular systems for applications in electronic devices due to their
open-shell electronic structures. Radicals can function as good electrical conductors and …

Quantum interference effects elucidate triplet-pair formation dynamics in intramolecular singlet-fission molecules

KR Parenti, R Chesler, G He, P Bhattacharyya… - Nature Chemistry, 2023 - nature.com
Quantum interference (QI)—the constructive or destructive interference of conduction
pathways through molecular orbitals—plays a fundamental role in enhancing or …

Gating of quantum interference in molecular junctions by heteroatom substitution

X Liu, S Sangtarash, D Reber, D Zhang… - Angewandte …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
To guide the choice of future synthetic targets for single‐molecule electronics, qualitative
design rules are needed, which describe the effect of modifying chemical structure. Here the …

Antiaromatic non-alternant heterocyclic compounds as molecular wires

E Leary, C Roldán-Piñero… - Journal of Materials …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
We have theoretically studied the electron-transport properties of a family of molecular
junctions containing the non-alternant antiaromatic pentalene moiety stabilised with various …

s-Indacene Revisited: Modular Synthesis and Modulation of Structures and Molecular Orbitals of Hexaaryl Derivatives

SJ Jhang, J Pandidurai, CP Chu… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Though s-indacene is an intriguing antiaromatic hydrocarbon of 12 π-electrons, it has been
underrepresented due to the lack of efficient and versatile methods to prepare stable …