Molecular-scale electronics: from concept to function

D Xiang, X Wang, C Jia, T Lee, X Guo - Chemical reviews, 2016 - ACS Publications
Creating functional electrical circuits using individual or ensemble molecules, often termed
as “molecular-scale electronics”, not only meets the increasing technical demands of the …

Conjugated oligomers and polymers sheathed with designer side chains

C Pan, C Zhao, M Takeuchi… - Chemistry–An Asian …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Conjugated polymers (CPs) are often referred to as molecular wires because of their quasi
one‐dimensional electronic wavefunctions delocalized along the polymer chains. However …

Activationless charge transport across 4.5 to 22 nm in molecular electronic junctions

H Yan, AJ Bergren, R McCreery… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - National Acad Sciences
In this work, we bridge the gap between short-range tunneling in molecular junctions and
activated hopping in bulk organic films, and greatly extend the distance range of charge …

Length-dependent conductance of oligothiophenes

B Capozzi, EJ Dell, TC Berkelbach… - Journal of the …, 2014 - ACS Publications
We have measured the single-molecule conductance of a family of oligothiophenes
comprising 1–6 thiophene moieties terminated with methyl-sulfide linkers using the …

Structure‐independent conductance of thiophene‐based single‐stacking junctions

X Li, Q Wu, J Bai, S Hou, W Jiang… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The experimental investigation of intermolecular charge transport in π‐conjugated materials
is challenging. Herein, we describe the investigation of charge transport through …

Single-molecule junctions of multinuclear organometallic wires: long-range carrier transport brought about by metal–metal interaction

Y Tanaka, Y Kato, K Sugimoto, R Kawano, T Tada… - Chemical …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Here, we report multinuclear organometallic molecular wires having (2, 5-
diethynylthiophene) diyl-Ru (dppe) 2 repeating units. Despite the molecular dimensions of 2 …

Non-exponential length dependence of conductance in iodide-terminated oligothiophene single-molecule tunneling junctions

L Xiang, T Hines, JL Palma, X Lu, V Mujica… - Journal of the …, 2016 - ACS Publications
An exponential decrease of molecular conductance with length has been observed in most
molecular systems reported to date, and has been taken as a signature of non-resonant …

Charge transport in molecular junctions: From tunneling to hopping with the probe technique

M Kilgour, D Segal - The Journal of chemical physics, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
We demonstrate that a simple phenomenological approach can be used to simulate
electronic conduction in molecular wires under thermal effects induced by the surrounding …

Carbon-rich organometallics: Application to molecular electronics

M Akita, Y Tanaka - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract MMM (metal–molecule-metal) junction exhibiting wire-like functions is an essential
component of molecular circuit/electronics. Herein reviewed are recent advances in the …

Structure controlled long-range sequential tunneling in carbon-based molecular junctions

A Morteza Najarian, RL McCreery - ACS nano, 2017 - ACS Publications
Carbon-based molecular junctions consisting of aromatic oligomers between conducting
sp2 hybridized carbon electrodes exhibit structure-dependent current densities (J) when the …