The unique properties of natural tetrapyrrolic compounds have inspired the rapid growth of
research interest in the design and synthesis of artificial porphyrinoids and their metal …

Electronic transport properties of single-molecule junctions have been widely measured by
several techniques, including mechanically controllable break junctions, electromigration …

This review covers the surface chemistry of porphyrins, phthalocyanines, their metal
complexes, and related compounds, with particular focus on chemical reactions at …

Understanding how molecules interact to form large-scale hierarchical structures on
surfaces holds promise for building designer nanoscale constructs with defined chemical …

Many important energy-transfer and optical processes, in both biological and artificial
systems, depend crucially on excitonic coupling that spans several chromophores,,,,,,,,. Such …

The structure determination of surface species has long been a challenge because of their
rich chemical heterogeneities. Modern tip-based microscopic techniques can resolve …

In the two decades since the introduction of the “click chemistry” concept, the toolbox of “click
reactions” has continually expanded, enabling chemists, materials scientists, and biologists …

The concept of using single molecules as key building blocks for logic gates, diodes and
transistors to perform basic functions of digital electronic devices at the molecular scale has …

The electron spin made its debut in the device world only two decades ago but today our
ability of detecting the spin state of a moving electron underpins the entire magnetic data …

Observing the intricate chemical transformation of an individual molecule as it undergoes a
complex reaction is a long-standing challenge in molecular imaging. Advances in scanning …