Opportunities in main group molecular electronics

MO Hight, TA Su - Trends in Chemistry, 2024 - cell.com
Main group molecular electronics is an emerging area that investigates quantum transport
through main group backbones within molecular junctions. It merges two rapidly advancing …

Influence of Peripheral Alkyl Groups on Junction Configurations in Single-Molecule Electronics

L Ornago, P Zwick, S van der Poel… - The Journal of …, 2024 - ACS Publications
The addition of a lateral alkyl chain is a well-known strategy to reduce π-stacked ensembles
of molecules in solution, with the intention to minimize the interactions between the …

Enhancing the Activity of a Carbon Nitride Photocatalyst by Constructing a Triazine–Heptazine Homojunction

J Xia, G Mark, Y Tong, T Hu, M Volokh, F Han… - Inorganic …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Establishing homojunctions at the molecular level between different but physicochemically
similar phases belonging to the same family of materials is an effective approach to …

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Chemical Shift as a Probe for Single‐Molecule Charge Transport

X Qiao, A Sil, S Sangtarash, SM Smith… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Existing modelling tools, developed to aid the design of efficient molecular wires and to
better understand their charge‐transport behaviour and mechanism, have limitations in …

Large area arrays of discrete single-molecule junctions derived from host–guest complexes

E Escorihuela, J Del Barrio, RJ Davidson, A Beeby… - Nanoscale, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
The desire to continually reduce the lower limits of semiconductor integrated circuit (IC)
fabrication methods continues to inspire interest in unimolecular electronics as a platform …

The Conductance and Thermopower Behavior of Pendent Trans-Coordinated Palladium(II) Complexes in Single-Molecule Junctions

P Bastante, RJ Davidson, W Al Malki, RJ Salthouse… - ACS …, 2024 - ACS Publications
The present work provides insight into the effect of connectivity within isomeric 1, 2-bis (2-
pyridylethynyl) benzene (bpb) palladium complexes on their electron transmission …

Quantum Mechanical Derived (VdW‐DFT) Transferable Lennard–Jones and Morse Potentials to Model Cysteine and Alkanethiol Adsorption on Au (111)

E Ventura‐Macias, PM Martinez… - Advanced Materials …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The cysteine and alkanethiol adsorption on Au (111) surfaces is investigated using density
functional theory (DFT) and classic molecular dynamics (MD). Understanding the S–Au …