Gold nanospheres and nanorods for anti-cancer therapy: comparative studies of fabrication, surface-decoration, and anti-cancer treatments

W Mao, YJ Son, HS Yoo - Nanoscale, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Various gold nanoparticles have been explored as cancer therapeutics because they can be
widely engineered for use as efficient drug carriers and diagnostic agents, and in photo …

Long-range electron tunnelling in oligo-porphyrin molecular wires

G Sedghi, VM García-Suárez, LJ Esdaile… - Nature …, 2011 - nature.com
Short chains of porphyrin molecules can mediate electron transport over distances as long
as 5–10 nm with low attenuation. This means that porphyrin-based molecular wires could be …

Single-molecule junctions based on nitrile-terminated biphenyls: a promising new anchoring group

A Mishchenko, LA Zotti, D Vonlanthen… - Journal of the …, 2011 - ACS Publications
We present a combined experimental and theoretical study of the electronic transport
through single-molecule junctions based on nitrile-terminated biphenyl derivatives. Using a …

Revealing the role of anchoring groups in the electrical conduction through single‐molecule junctions

LA Zotti, T Kirchner, JC Cuevas, F Pauly, T Huhn… - small, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
A combined experimental and theoretical study is presented revealing the influence of metal–
molecule coupling on electronic transport through single‐molecule junctions. Transport …

Trimethylsilyl-terminated oligo (phenylene ethynylene) s: an approach to single-molecule junctions with covalent Au–C σ-bonds

W Hong, H Li, SX Liu, Y Fu, J Li… - Journal of the …, 2012 - ACS Publications
A new and efficient approach using cleaving of trimethylsilyl groups to create covalent Au–C
anchoring sites has been developed for single-molecule junction conductance …

Engineering transport orbitals in single-molecule junctions

A Daaoub, L Ornago, D Vogel, P Bastante… - The Journal of …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Controlling charge transport through molecules is challenging because it requires
engineering of the energy of molecular orbitals involved in the transport process. While side …

Label-Free Electrochemiluminescent Immunosensor for Detection of Carcinoembryonic Antigen Based on Nanocomposites of GO/MWCNTs-COOH/Au@CeO2

X Pang, J Li, Y Zhao, D Wu, Y Zhang, B Du… - … Applied Materials & …, 2015 - ACS Publications
A high-sensitivity electrochemiluminescence (ECL) sensor was conducted to detect
carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA). Nanocomposites of graphene oxide/carboxylated …

Questioning claims of monitoring the Michael addition reaction at the single-molecule level

L Venkataraman, J van Ruitenbeek - Nature Chemistry, 2024 - nature.com
In this work Yang et al. 1 claim that an enantioselective Michael addition reaction with a
barrier of 16 kcal mol− 1 occurs at the single-molecule level in frozen solvent by measuring …

Single‐Molecule Conductance Studies of Organometallic Complexes Bearing 3‐Thienyl Contacting Groups

S Bock, OA Al‐Owaedi, SG Eaves… - … A European Journal, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The compounds and complexes 1, 4‐C6H4 (C≡ C‐cyclo‐3‐C4H3S) 2 (2), trans‐[Pt
(C≡ C‐cyclo‐3‐C4H3S) 2 (PEt3) 2](3), trans‐[Ru (C≡ C‐cyclo‐3‐C4H3S) 2 (dppe) 2](4; …

Cluster Formation of Self-Assembled Triarylbismuthanes and Charge Transport Characterizations of Gold–Triarylbismuthane–Gold Junctions

AT Nguyen, T Louis-Goff, JJ Ortiz-Garcia… - … Applied Materials & …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Organometallic molecules are promising for molecular electronic devices due to their
potential to improve electrical conductance through access to complex orbital covalency that …