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 …

Creating functional electrical circuits using individual or ensemble molecules, often termed
as “molecular-scale electronics”, not only meets the increasing technical demands of the …

Coherence phenomena arise from interference, or the addition, of wave-like amplitudes with
fixed phase differences. Although coherence has been shown to yield transformative ways …

Electronic transport properties of single-molecule junctions have been widely measured by
several techniques, including mechanically controllable break junctions, electromigration …

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 …

Controlling the electrical conductance and in particular the occurrence of quantum
interference in single-molecule junctions through gating effects has potential for the …

Oriented external electric fields (OEEFs) offer a unique chance to tune catalytic selectivity by
orienting the alignment of the electric field along the axis of the activated bond for a specific …

Electron transport through noncovalent interaction is of fundamental and practical
importance in nanomaterials and nanodevices. Recent single-molecule studies employing …

Quantum interference can profoundly affect charge transport in single molecules, but
experiments can usually measure only the conductance at the Fermi energy. Because, in …

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