The idea of using individual molecules as active electronic components provided the
impetus to develop a variety of experimental platforms to probe their electronic transport …

Unimolecular electronics (UME) narrowly defined (sensu stricto), 1 or molecular-scale
electronics, 2 is the study of electrical processes measured or controlled on a molecular …

Atomic force microscopy (AFM) was introduced in 1986 and has since made its way into
surface science, nanoscience, chemistry, biology, and material science as an imaging and …

Hydration layers are ubiquitous in life and technology. Hence, interfacial aqueous layers
have a central role in a wide range of phenomena from materials science to molecular and …

Ultrathin films of boron nitride (BN) have recently attracted considerable interest given their
successful incorporation in graphene nanodevices and their use as spacer layers to …

One of the outstanding advancements in electronic‐structure density‐functional methods is
the Sankey–Niklewski (SN) approach [Sankey and Niklewski, Phys. Rev. B 40, 3979 (1989)]; …

Heat transfer, electrical potential and light energy are common ways to activate chemical
reactions. Applied force is another way, but dedicated studies for such a mechanical …

Van der Waals forces are among the weakest, yet most decisive interactions governing
condensation and aggregation processes and the phase behaviour of atomic and molecular …

The latest concepts for quantum computing and data storage rely on the addressing and
manipulation of single spins. A limitation for single atoms or molecules in contact with a …

Developments in advanced manufacturing have promoted the miniaturization of
semiconductor electronic devices to a near-atomic scale, which continuously follows the'top …