Theoretical studies suggest that mastering the thermocurrent through single molecules can lead to thermoelectric energy harvesters with unprecedentedly high efficiencies.,,,,–This can …
Entropy is one of the most fundamental quantities in physics. For systems with few degrees of freedom, the value of entropy provides a powerful insight into its microscopic dynamics …
W Peng, Z Cao, N Chen, Y Xie, Y Li - Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
This study addresses the influences of the topography of the bottom electrodes on the properties of the thermoelectric effects across molecular wires made from self-assembled …
H Kirchberg, A Nitzan - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
We consider a molecular junction immersed in a solvent where the electron transfer is dominated by Marcus-type steps. However, the successive nature of the charge transfer …
JK Sowa, N Lambert, T Seideman… - The Journal of Chemical …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Marcus and Landauer–Büttiker approaches to charge transport through molecular junctions describe two contrasting mechanisms of electronic conduction. In previous work, we have …
GT Craven, A Nitzan - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
The realization of single-molecule thermal conductance measurements has driven the need for theoretical tools to describe conduction processes that occur over atomistic length scales …
P Gehring, M Van Der Star, C Evangeli… - Applied Physics …, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
The energy dependent thermoelectric response of a single molecule contains valuable information about its transmission function and its excited states. However, measuring it …
The entropy of a system gives a powerful insight into its microscopic degrees of freedom; however, standard experimental ways of measuring entropy through heat capacity are hard …
JK Sowa, RA Marcus - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Experimental studies on single-molecule junctions are typically in need of a simple theoretical approach that can reproduce or be fitted to experimentally measured transport …