Nanoscale molecular rectifiers

R Gupta, JA Fereiro, A Bayat, A Pritam… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
The use of molecules bridged between two electrodes as a stable rectifier is an important
goal in molecular electronics. Until recently, however, and despite extensive experimental …

Reactions in single-molecule junctions

H Chen, C Jia, X Zhu, C Yang, X Guo… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Developing new materials is a long-standing goal that extends across the fields of synthesis,
catalysis, nanotechnology and materials science. Transforming one compound or material …

Room-temperature logic-in-memory operations in single-metallofullerene devices

J Li, S Hou, YR Yao, C Zhang, Q Wu, HC Wang… - Nature materials, 2022 - nature.com
In-memory computing provides an opportunity to meet the growing demands of large data-
driven applications such as machine learning, by colocating logic operations and data …

Concepts in the design and engineering of single-molecule electronic devices

N Xin, J Guan, C Zhou, X Chen, C Gu, Y Li… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
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 …

σ–σ Stacked supramolecular junctions

A Feng, Y Zhou, MAY Al-Shebami, L Chen, Z Pan… - Nature Chemistry, 2022 - nature.com
Intermolecular charge transport plays an essential role in organic electronic materials and
biological systems. To date, experimental investigations of intermolecular charge transport …

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 …

Advances and challenges in single-molecule electron transport

F Evers, R Korytár, S Tewari, JM Van Ruitenbeek - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2020 - APS
Electronic transport properties of single-molecule junctions have been widely measured by
several techniques, including mechanically controllable break junctions, electromigration …

Single-molecule quantum-transport phenomena in break junctions

P Gehring, JM Thijssen, HSJ van der Zant - Nature Reviews Physics, 2019 - nature.com
Single-molecule junctions—devices in which a single molecule is electrically connected by
two electrodes—enable the study of a broad range of quantum-transport phenomena even …

Large-area, ensemble molecular electronics: motivation and challenges

A Vilan, D Aswal, D Cahen - Chemical Reviews, 2017 - ACS Publications
We review charge transport across molecular monolayers, which is central to molecular
electronics (MolEl), using large-area junctions (NmJ). We strive to provide a wide conceptual …

Molecular diodes with rectification ratios exceeding 105 driven by electrostatic interactions

X Chen, M Roemer, L Yuan, W Du, D Thompson… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Molecular diodes operating in the tunnelling regime are intrinsically limited to a maximum
rectification ratio R of∼ 103. To enhance this rectification ratio to values comparable to …