Functional molecular wires

Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics Pub Date: 2008-02-22 DOI: 10.1039/B719417J

Abstract

The properties of self-assembled molecules may be tuned by sequentially coupling components on a gold surface, the molecular electronics toolbox of chemically reactive building blocks yielding molecular wires with diode-like current–voltage (IV) characteristics. The bias for rectification in each case is dependent upon the sequence of electron-donating and electron-accepting moieties and similar behaviour has been achieved for four different contacting techniques.

Graphical abstract: Functional molecular wires
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