[HTML][HTML] Artificial molecular machines

S Erbas-Cakmak, DA Leigh, CT McTernan… - Chemical …, 2015 - ACS Publications
The widespread use of molecular machines in biology has long suggested that great
rewards could come from bridging the gap between synthetic molecular systems and the …

Development of pseudorotaxanes and rotaxanes: from synthesis to stimuli-responsive motions to applications

M Xue, Y Yang, X Chi, X Yan, F Huang - Chemical reviews, 2015 - ACS Publications
The history of isomeric types of organic molecules has passed through several important
stages:(1) Molecules that differ from each other with different numbers and types of atoms;(2) …

Synthetic molecular motors and mechanical machines

ER Kay, DA Leigh, F Zerbetto - … Chemie International Edition, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
The widespread use of controlled molecular‐level motion in key natural processes suggests
that great rewards could come from bridging the gap between the present generation of …

Charge transport through molecular switches

SJ van der Molen, P Liljeroth - Journal of Physics: Condensed …, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
We review the fascinating research on charge transport through switchable molecules. In the
past decade, detailed investigations have been performed on a great variety of molecular …

Contact resistance for “end-contacted” metal− graphene and metal− nanotube interfaces from quantum mechanics

Y Matsuda, WQ Deng… - The Journal of Physical …, 2010 - ACS Publications
In this paper, we predict the current− voltage (I− V) characteristics and contact resistance of
“end-contacted” metal electrode− graphene and metal electrode− carbon nanotube (CNT) …

Orbital views of the electron transport in molecular devices

K Yoshizawa, T Tada, A Staykov - Journal of the American …, 2008 - ACS Publications
Extended π-conjugated molecules are interesting materials that have been studied
theoretically and experimentally with applications to conducting nanowire, memory, and …

Active molecular plasmonics: controlling plasmon resonances with molecular switches

YB Zheng, YW Yang, L Jensen, L Fang, BK Juluri… - Nano …, 2009 - ACS Publications
A gold nanodisk array, coated with bistable, redox-controllable [2] rotaxane molecules, when
exposed to chemical oxidants and reductants, undergoes switching of its plasmonic …

Time-dependent density-functional theory for open systems

X Zheng, F Wang, CY Yam, Y Mo, GH Chen - Physical Review B—Condensed …, 2007 - APS
With our proof of the holographic electron density theorem for time-dependent systems, a
first-principles method for any open electronic system is established. By introducing the self …

Ground‐state equilibrium thermodynamics and switching kinetics of bistable [2] rotaxanes switched in solution, polymer gels, and molecular electronic devices

JW Choi, AH Flood, DW Steuerman… - … A European Journal, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
We report on the kinetics and ground‐state thermodynamics associated with
electrochemically driven molecular mechanical switching of three bistable [2] rotaxanes in …

Tetrathiafulvalene–a redox-switchable building block to control motion in mechanically interlocked molecules

HV Schröder, CA Schalley - Beilstein journal of organic …, 2018 - beilstein-journals.org
With the rise of artificial molecular machines, control of motion on the nanoscale has
become a major contemporary research challenge. Tetrathiafulvalenes (TTFs) are one of the …