Reversible local and global switching in multicomponent supramolecular networks: Controlled guest release and capture at the solution/solid interface

SL Lee, Y Fang, G Velpula, FP Cometto… - ACS …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Dynamically switchable supramolecular systems offer exciting possibilities in building smart
surfaces, the structure and thus the function of which can be controlled by using external …

Electrochemically controlled conductance switching in a single molecule: Quinone-modified oligo (phenylene vinylene)

S Tsoi, I Griva, SA Trammell, AS Blum, JM Schnur… - Acs Nano, 2008 - ACS Publications
Reversible conductance switching in single quinone-oligo (phenylene vinylene)(Q-OPV)
molecules was demonstrated using electrochemical STM. The switching was achieved by …

[PDF][PDF] The metastability of an electrochemically controlled nanoscale machine on gold surfaces

HR Tseng, D Wu, NX Fang, X Zhang, JF Stoddart - ChemPhysChem, 2004 - xlab.hku.hk
The advent of supramolecular chemistry [1] has provided chemists with the wherewithal to
construct molecule-level machines [2, 3] in an efficient manner using the protocol of template …

Oxazine: an anchoring group serving as functional kernels to construct single-molecule switches

S Li, Y Jiang, Y Wang, D Lin, H Pan, Y Wang… - Journal of Materials …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
As a central research target in molecular electronics, molecular switches have been
extensively explored over the past decades. We theoretically demonstrate that when linking …

Light‐induced switching of tunable single‐molecule junctions

T Sendler, K Luka‐Guth, M Wieser, Lokamani… - Advanced …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
A major goal of molecular electronics is the development and implementation of devices
such as single‐molecular switches. Here, measurements are presented that show the …

Isomerization reactions on single adsorbed molecules

K Morgenstern - Accounts of chemical research, 2009 - ACS Publications
Molecular switches occur throughout nature. In one prominent example, light induces the
isomerization of retinal from the compact 11-cis form to the elongated all-trans form, a …

Regulating a benzodifuran single molecule redox switch via electrochemical gating and optimization of molecule/electrode coupling

Z Li, H Li, S Chen, T Froehlich, C Yi… - Journal of the …, 2014 - ACS Publications
We report a novel strategy for the regulation of charge transport through single molecule
junctions via the combination of external stimuli of electrode potential, internal modulation of …

Binary Conformational Switches in a Porphyrin Chain: Tautomerization and Stereoisomerization

Z Feng, S Velari, C Dri, A Goldoni… - The Journal of …, 2020 - ACS Publications
In the last decade, hydrogen (H-) tautomerization, that is, a reaction that involves simple
intramolecular proton transfer, has been studied in single phthalocyanine, porphyrin, and …

Switchable host–guest systems on surfaces

YW Yang, YL Sun, N Song - Accounts of Chemical Research, 2014 - ACS Publications
Conspectus For device miniaturization, nanotechnology follows either the “top-down”
approach scaling down existing larger-scale devices or the “bottom-up'approach …

Synergistic regulation of nonbinary molecular switches by protonation and light

X Zhang, YD Yang, ZH Lu, LJ Xu… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
We report a molecular switching ensemble whose states may be regulated in synergistic
fashion by both protonation and photoirradiation. This allows hierarchical control in both a …