Smart eutectic gallium–indium: from properties to applications

Z Zhao, S Soni, T Lee, CA Nijhuis… - Advanced Materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Eutectic gallium–indium (EGaIn), a liquid metal with a melting point close to or
below room temperature, has attracted extensive attention in recent years due to its …

Charge transport through molecular ensembles: Recent progress in molecular electronics

Y Liu, X Qiu, S Soni, RC Chiechi - Chemical Physics Reviews, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
This review focuses on molecular ensemble junctions in which the individual molecules of a
monolayer each span two electrodes. This geometry favors quantum mechanical tunneling …

The importance of electrical impedance spectroscopy and equivalent circuit analysis on nanoscale molecular electronic devices

P Jash, RK Parashar, C Fontanesi… - Advanced Functional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
To understand the electrical and charge transport phenomena in either single or large‐scale
molecular junctions, direct current (DC) measurements are mainly utilized. The current …

Multiscale characterization of the influence of the organic–inorganic interface on the dielectric breakdown of nanocomposites

PF Pieters, A Lainé, H Li, YH Lu, Y Singh, LW Wang… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Nanoscale engineered materials such as nanocomposites can display or be designed to
enhance their material properties through control of the internal interfaces. Here, we unveil …

Rectification ratio and tunneling decay coefficient depend on the contact geometry revealed by in situ imaging of the formation of EGaIn junctions

X Chen, H Hu, J Trasobares… - ACS applied materials & …, 2019 - ACS Publications
This paper describes how the intensive (tunneling decay coefficient β and rectification ratio
R) and extensive (current density J) properties of Ag–S (CH2) n− 1CH3//GaO x/EGaIn …

Programmable soft-matter electronics

AS Ivanov, KG Nikolaev, AS Novikov… - The Journal of …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The hydrogels of the polyelectrolytes polyethylenimine and poly (acrylic acid) are used to
form a thin-layer interface on the gallium–indium eutectic alloy's surface. The proposed …

N-heterocyclic carbenes for the self-assembly of thin and highly insulating monolayers with high quality and stability

A Krzykawska, M Wróbel, K Kozieł, P Cyganik - ACS nano, 2020 - ACS Publications
As an organic nanostructure, self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) play a central role in many
aspects of nanotechnology, including molecular electronics. In this work, we show that SAMs …

Self-Healable, Degradable, and Reprocessable Lignin-based Polyurethane Elastomer for a Flexible Strain Sensor

H Zhu, S Zhang, Y Chen, X Lai, J Ding… - ACS Applied Polymer …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Flexible strain sensors have attracted great attention for their important application potential
in soft robot, wearable device, electronic skin, and human–computer interaction, yet there …

Interplay of collective electrostatic effects and level alignment dictates the tunneling rates across halogenated aromatic monolayer junctions

X Chen, HV Annadata, B Kretz… - The journal of …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Predictions about the electrical conductance across molecular junctions based on self-
assembled monolayers (SAMs) are often made from the SAM precursor properties …

A single atom change turns insulating saturated wires into molecular conductors

X Chen, B Kretz, F Adoah, C Nickle, X Chi, X Yu… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
We present an efficient strategy to modulate tunnelling in molecular junctions by changing
the tunnelling decay coefficient, β, by terminal-atom substitution which avoids altering the …