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 …

[HTML][HTML] A review of functional linear carbon chains (oligoynes, polyynes, cumulenes) and their applications as molecular wires in molecular electronics and …

MR Bryce - Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Linear, sp-hybridised, 1-dimensional (1D) all-carbon wires are conceptually the simplest π-
conjugated organic molecules. Their fundamental experimental and theoretical properties …

Ballistic conductance through porphyrin nanoribbons

JR Deng, MT González, H Zhu… - Journal of the …, 2024 - ACS Publications
The search for long molecular wires that can transport charge with maximum efficiency over
many nanometers has driven molecular electronics since its inception. Single-molecule …

Synthesis, properties, and applications of carbyne nanocrystals

G Yang - Materials Science and Engineering: R: Reports, 2022 - Elsevier
Since the first observation of fullerene nearly three decades ago, allotropes of carbon,
including carbon nanotube and graphene, have been the focus of considerable research …

Cumulene wires display increasing conductance with increasing length

Y Zang, T Fu, Q Zou, F Ng, H Li, ML Steigerwald… - Nano Letters, 2020 - ACS Publications
One-dimensional sp-hybridized carbon wires, including cumulenes and polyynes, can be
regarded as finite versions of carbynes. They are likely to be good candidates for molecular …

[HTML][HTML] Mechanical single-molecule potentiometers with large switching factors from ortho-pentaphenylene foldamers

J Li, P Shen, S Zhen, C Tang, Y Ye, D Zhou… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Molecular potentiometers that can indicate displacement-conductance relationship, and
predict and control molecular conductance are of significant importance but rarely …

Single-molecule charge transport through positively charged electrostatic anchors

H Chen, V Brasiliense, J Mo, L Zhang… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The charge transport in single-molecule junctions depends critically on the chemical identity
of the anchor groups that are used to connect the molecular wires to the electrodes. In this …

“Doping” of Polyyne with an Organometallic Fragment Leads to Highly Conductive Metallapolyyne Molecular Wire

Y Tanaka, Y Kato, T Tada, S Fujii… - Journal of the …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Exploration of highly conductive molecules is essential to achieve single-molecule
electronic devices. The present paper describes the results on single-molecule conductance …

Molecular structure–(thermo) electric property relationships in single-molecule junctions and comparisons with single-and multiple-parameter models

M Naher, DC Milan, OA Al-Owaedi… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The most probable single-molecule conductance of each member of a series of 12
conjugated molecular wires, 6 of which contain either a ruthenium or platinum center …

Beyond Marcus theory and the Landauer-Büttiker approach in molecular junctions: A unified framework

JK Sowa, JA Mol, GAD Briggs… - The Journal of chemical …, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
Charge transport through molecular junctions is often described either as a purely coherent
or a purely classical phenomenon, and described using the Landauer–Büttiker formalism or …