Chemical principles of single-molecule electronics

TA Su, M Neupane, ML Steigerwald… - Nature Reviews …, 2016 - nature.com
The field of single-molecule electronics harnesses expertise from engineering, physics and
chemistry to realize circuit elements at the limit of miniaturization; it is a subfield of …

Break junction under electrochemical gating: testbed for single-molecule electronics

C Huang, AV Rudnev, W Hong… - Chemical Society …, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Molecular electronics aims to construct functional molecular devices at the single-molecule
scale. One of the major challenges is to construct a single-molecule junction and to further …

Comprehensive suppression of single-molecule conductance using destructive σ-interference

MH Garner, H Li, Y Chen, TA Su, Z Shangguan… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
The tunnelling of electrons through molecules (and through any nanoscale insulating and
dielectric material) shows exponential attenuation with increasing length, a length …

Incorporating single molecules into electrical circuits. The role of the chemical anchoring group

E Leary, A La Rosa, MT González… - Chemical Society …, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Constructing electronic circuits containing singly wired molecules is at the frontier of
electrical device miniaturisation. When a molecule is wired between a pair of electrodes, the …

Experimental and theoretical analysis of nanotransport in oligophenylene dithiol junctions as a function of molecular length and contact work function

Z Xie, I Bâldea, CE Smith, Y Wu, CD Frisbie - ACS nano, 2015 - ACS Publications
We report the results of an extensive investigation of metal–molecule–metal tunnel junctions
based on oligophenylene dithiols (OPDs) bound to several types of electrodes (M1–S …

Determination of energy-level alignment in molecular tunnel junctions by transport and spectroscopy: self-consistency for the case of oligophenylene thiols and …

Z Xie, I Bâldea, CD Frisbie - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
We report detailed measurements of transport and electronic properties of molecular tunnel
junctions based on self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) of oligophenylene monothiols (OPT …

Single‐Molecule Electrochemical Transistors

J Bai, X Li, Z Zhu, Y Zheng, W Hong - Advanced Materials, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Single‐molecule electrochemical transistors are a type of novel molecular devices in which
the tunneling current through the single‐molecule junction is modulated by the …

Single-molecule junction formation in break-junction measurements

T Fu, K Frommer, C Nuckolls… - The Journal of Physical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The scanning tunneling microscope-based break-junction (STM-BJ) technique is the most
common method used to study the electronic properties of single-molecule junctions. It relies …

One-step synthesis of silver nanoparticles using carbon dots as reducing and stabilizing agents and their antibacterial mechanisms

JC Jin, ZQ Xu, P Dong, L Lai, JY Lan, FL Jiang, Y Liu - Carbon, 2015 - Elsevier
Silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) are potent and broad-spectrum antimicrobial agents. Herein, a
novel one-step method has been used to synthesize AgNPs, in which fluorescent carbon …

Determination of energy level alignment and coupling strength in 4, 4′-bipyridine single-molecule junctions

T Kim, P Darancet, JR Widawsky, M Kotiuga… - Nano …, 2014 - ACS Publications
We measure conductance and thermopower of single Au–4, 4′-bipyridine–Au junctions in
distinct low and high conductance binding geometries accessed by modulating the …