Radical Single-Molecule Junctions

L Li, CR Prindle, W Shi, C Nuckolls… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Radicals are unique molecular systems for applications in electronic devices due to their
open-shell electronic structures. Radicals can function as good electrical conductors and …

Recent advances in the chemistry of benzo [e][1, 2, 4] triazinyl radicals

FJM Rogers, PL Norcott, ML Coote - Organic & Biomolecular …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Benzo [e][1, 2, 4] triazinyl, or Blatter radicals, are stable free radicals, first reported by Blatter
in 1968. In contrast to their nitroxide counterparts, their properties can be modified more …

Regulation of quantum spin conversions in a single molecular radical

C Yang, Z Chen, C Yu, J Cao, G Ke, W Zhu… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Free radicals, generally formed through the cleavage of covalent electron-pair bonds, play
an important role in diverse fields ranging from synthetic chemistry to spintronics and …

Recent advances of stable Blatter radicals: synthesis, properties and applications

Y Ji, L Long, Y Zheng - Materials Chemistry Frontiers, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Radicals, organic molecules with unpaired electrons, are applied across different scientific
disciplines such as electronics, energy storage and biochemistry. Among them, due to the …

Engineering of magnetic coupling in nanographene

Y Zheng, C Li, Y Zhao, D Beyer, G Wang, C Xu… - Physical Review Letters, 2020 - APS
Nanographenes with sublattice imbalance host a net spin according to Lieb's theorem for
bipartite lattices. Here, we report the on-surface synthesis of atomically precise …

Insights into the magnetism and phase transitions of organic radical-based materials

M Deumal, S Vela, M Fumanal, J Ribas-Arino… - Journal of Materials …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Organic radicals have been consistently regarded as promising building blocks for the next
generation of applied materials. Multiple radical families have been developed and …

Interplay between magnetoresistance and Kondo resonance in radical single-molecule junctions

G Mitra, JZ Low, S Wei, KR Francisco, M Deffner… - Nano Letters, 2022 - ACS Publications
We report transport measurements on tunable single-molecule junctions of the organic
perchlorotrityl radical molecule, contacted with gold electrodes at low temperature. The …

Noncontact atomic force microscopy: Bond imaging and beyond

Q Zhong, X Li, H Zhang, L Chi - Surface Science Reports, 2020 - Elsevier
It was a long-cherished dream for chemists to take a direct look at chemical bonding, a
fundamental component of chemistry. This dream was finally accomplished by the state-of …

Observation of biradical spin coupling through hydrogen bonds

Y He, N Li, IE Castelli, R Li, Y Zhang, X Zhang, C Li… - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
Investigation of intermolecular electron spin interaction is of fundamental importance in both
science and technology. Here, radical pairs of all-trans retinoic acid molecules on Au (111) …

Effect of orbital symmetry on probing the single-molecule Kondo effect

N Néel, C Dreßler, J Kröger - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
The low-energy excitation spectrum of a metal-free phthalocyanine molecule on Ag (111) is
probed in scanning tunneling spectroscopy experiments. The use of functionalized p-orbital …