Voltage-driven control of single-molecule keto-enol equilibrium in a two-terminal junction system

C Tang, T Stuyver, T Lu, J Liu, Y Ye, T Gao… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Keto-enol tautomerism, describing an equilibrium involving two tautomers with distinctive
structures, provides a promising platform for modulating nanoscale charge transport …

Enhanced electron transport in nonconjugated radical oligomers occurs by tunneling

Y Tan, J Li, S Li, H Yang, T Chi, SB Shiring, K Liu… - Nano …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Incorporating temperature-and air-stable organic radical species into molecular designs is a
potentially advantageous means of controlling the properties of electronic materials …

Insight into the origin of chiral-induced spin selectivity from a symmetry analysis of electronic transmission

MS Zöllner, S Varela, E Medina… - Journal of chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The chiral-induced spin selectivity (CISS) effect, which describes the spin-filtering ability of
diamagnetic structures like DNA or peptides having chiral symmetry, has emerged in the …

Mixed monolayers of spiropyrans maximize tunneling conductance switching by photoisomerization at the molecule–electrode interface in EGaIn junctions

S Kumar, JT van Herpt, RYN Gengler… - Journal of the …, 2016 - ACS Publications
This paper describes the photoinduced switching of conductance in tunneling junctions
comprising self-assembled monolayers of a spiropyran moiety using eutectic Ga–In top …

Diradical character as a guiding principle for the insightful design of molecular nanowires with an increasing conductance with length

T Stuyver, T Zeng, Y Tsuji, P Geerlings, F De Proft - Nano letters, 2018 - ACS Publications
In recent years, a considerable interest has grown in the design of molecular nanowires with
an increasing conductance with length. The development of such nanowires is highly …

Influence of electronic structure modeling and junction structure on first-principles chiral induced spin selectivity

MS Zöllner, A Saghatchi, V Mujica… - Journal of Chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
We have carried out a comprehensive study of the influence of electronic structure modeling
and junction structure description on the first-principles calculation of the spin polarization in …

Conformation-driven quantum interference effects mediated by through-space conjugation in self-assembled monolayers

M Carlotti, A Kovalchuk, T Wächter, X Qiu… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Tunnelling currents through tunnelling junctions comprising molecules with cross-
conjugation are markedly lower than for their linearly conjugated analogues. This effect has …

Conductance switching in expanded porphyrins through aromaticity and topology changes

T Stuyver, M Perrin, P Geerlings… - Journal of the …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Expanded porphyrins are flexible enough to switch between different π-conjugation
topologies, namely Möbius, Hückel and twisted-Hückel, each with distinct electronic …

Strong Be− N Interaction Induced Complementary Chemical Tuning to Design a Dual‐gated Single Molecule Junction

D Sutradhar, A Sarmah, P Hobza… - … –A European Journal, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The interaction between pyridines and the π‐hole of BeH2 leads to the formation of strong
beryllium‐bonded complexes. Theoretical investigations demonstrate that the Be− N …

DFT as a powerful predictive tool in photoredox catalysis: redox potentials and mechanistic analysis

TB Demissie, K Ruud, JH Hansen - Organometallics, 2015 - ACS Publications
Visible-light photoredox catalysis has come forth as a powerful activation mode in chemical
synthesis, affording the development of a multitude of new strategies for molecular …