Single-molecule junction: A reliable platform for monitoring molecular physical and chemical processes

X **e, P Li, Y Xu, L Zhou, Y Yan, L **e, C Jia, X Guo - ACS nano, 2022 - ACS Publications
Monitoring and manipulating the physical and chemical behavior of single molecules is an
important development direction of molecular electronics that aids in understanding the …

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 …

Electrostatic catalysis of a Diels–Alder reaction

AC Aragones, NL Haworth, N Darwish, S Ciampi… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
It is often thought that the ability to control reaction rates with an applied electrical potential
gradient is unique to redox systems. However, recent theoretical studies suggest that …

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 …

Single molecular conductance of tolanes: experimental and theoretical study on the junction evolution dependent on the anchoring group

W Hong, DZ Manrique, P Moreno-García… - Journal of the …, 2012 - ACS Publications
Employing a scanning tunneling microscopy based beak junction technique and
mechanically controlled break junction experiments, we investigated tolane …

Rectification and stability of a single molecular diode with controlled orientation

I Díez-Pérez, J Hihath, Y Lee, L Yu, L Adamska… - Nature …, 2009 - nature.com
In the molecular electronics field it is highly desirable to engineer the structure of molecules
to achieve specific functions. In particular, diode (or rectification) behaviour in single …

Single-molecule conductance of functionalized oligoynes: length dependence and junction evolution

P Moreno-García, M Gulcur, DZ Manrique… - Journal of the …, 2013 - ACS Publications
We report a combined experimental and theoretical investigation of the length dependence
and anchor group dependence of the electrical conductance of a series of oligoyne …

Conductance of a single conjugated polymer as a continuous function of its length

L Lafferentz, F Ample, H Yu, S Hecht, C Joachim, L Grill - Science, 2009 - science.org
The development of electronic devices at the single-molecule scale requires detailed
understanding of charge transport through individual molecular wires. To characterize the …

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 …

Correlations between molecular structure and single-junction conductance: a case study with oligo (phenylene-ethynylene)-type wires

V Kaliginedi, P Moreno-García… - Journal of the …, 2012 - ACS Publications
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 …