Noble metal nanoparticles (NPs) are ideal scaffolds for the fabrication of sensing devices
because of their high surface-to-volume ratio combined with their unique optical and …

The use of a gate electrode allows us to gain deeper insight into the electronic structure of
molecular junctions. It is widely used for spectroscopy of the molecular levels and its excited …

Metallic nanostructures attract much interest as an efficient media for surface‐enhanced
Raman scattering (SERS). Significant progress has been made on the synthesis of metal …

Transport of electrons in a single molecule junction is the simplest problem in the general
subject area of molecular electronics. In the past few years, this area has been extended to …

Nanoparticles (NPs) are commonly referred to as “artificial atoms”, 1 as they can exhibit
atomic-like behaviors. The analogy is highlighted by a result that, just like atoms, electronic …

The charge transport characteristics of 11 tailor-made dithiol-terminated oligo (phenylene-
ethynylene)(OPE)-type molecules attached to two gold electrodes were studied at a …

We review the fascinating research on charge transport through switchable molecules. In the
past decade, detailed investigations have been performed on a great variety of molecular …

Bulk syntheses of colloids efficiently produce nanoparticles with unique and useful
properties. Their integration onto surfaces is a prerequisite for exploiting these properties in …

Although research on molecular electronics has drawn increasingly more attention in the
last decade, the large spread in obtained results for the conduction rescaled to a single …

Ligand-stabilized gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) are of high interest to research dedicated to
future technologies such as nanoelectronics or biomedical applications. This research …