Over the past two decades, various techniques for fabricating nano-gapped electrodes have
emerged, promoting rapid development in the field of single-molecule electronics, on both …

Since the prediction of the existence of metallabenzenes in 1979, metallaaromatic chemistry
has developed rapidly, due to its importance in both experimental and theoretical fields …

Conspectus Quantum interference effects (QIEs), which offer unique opportunities for the
fine-tuning of charge transport through molecular building blocks by constructive or …

Conspectus The construction of metal–carbon bonds is one of the most important issues of
organometallic chemistry. However, the chelation of polydentate ligands to a metal via …

Conspectus Aromatic compounds are important in synthetic chemistry, biomedicines, and
materials science. As a special type of aromatic complex, transition-metal-based …

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 …

Conjugated molecules play a critical role in the construction of single-molecule devices.
However, most conventional conjugated molecules, such as hydrocarbons, involve only a …

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

Full-carbon electronics at the scale of several angstroms is an expeimental challenge, which
could be overcome by exploiting the versatility of carbon allotropes. Here, we investigate …

The manipulation of molecule-electrode interaction is essential for the fabrication of
molecular devices and determines the connectivity from electrodes to molecular …