Using individual molecules as conducting bridges for electrons offers opportunities when
investigating quantum phenomena that are not readily accessible from experiments …

The active template approach to interlocked molecules takes advantage of the ability of
metal ions to both organize precursor fragments for mechanical bond formation and to …

Linear, sp-hybridised, 1-dimensional (1D) all-carbon wires are conceptually the simplest π-
conjugated organic molecules. Their fundamental experimental and theoretical properties …

The active template synthesis of mechanically interlocked molecular architectures exploits
the dual ability of various structural elements (metals or, in the case of metal-free active …

Besides graphite and diamond, the solid allotropes of carbon in sp2 and sp3 hybridization,
the possible existence of a third allotrope based on the sp-carbon linear chain, the carbyne …

Exploration of highly conductive molecules is essential to achieve single-molecule
electronic devices. The present paper describes the results on single-molecule conductance …

The most probable single-molecule conductance of each member of a series of 12
conjugated molecular wires, 6 of which contain either a ruthenium or platinum center …

The versatility of carbon is revealed in its all-carbon forms (allotropes), which feature unique
properties (consider the differences between diamond, graphite, graphene and fullerenes) …

The scanning tunneling microscope-based break-junction (STM-BJ) technique is the most
common method used to study the electronic properties of single-molecule junctions. It relies …

Off-resonant charge transport through molecular junctions has been extensively studied
since the advent of single-molecule electronics and is now well understood within the …