Molecular understanding of fullerene–electron donor interactions in organic solar cells

SM Ryno, MK Ravva, X Chen, H Li… - Advanced Energy …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Organic solar cells hold promise of providing low‐cost, renewable power generation, with
current devices providing up to 13% power conversion efficiency. The rational design of …

Solid surface vs. liquid surface: nanoarchitectonics, molecular machines, and DNA origami

K Ariga, T Mori, W Nakanishi, JP Hill - Physical Chemistry Chemical …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
The investigation of molecules and materials at interfaces is critical for the accumulation of
new scientific insights and technological advances in the chemical and physical sciences …

In situ plasmonic tip preparation and validation techniques for scanning tunneling microscopy

BN Taber, ML Neill, TN Thom, OD Clapp… - Journal of Vacuum …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Among the many parts constituting a scanning tunneling microscope, the metallic tip is the
component that directly interacts with the specimen and plays a critical role in visualizing the …

Impact of External Electronic Perturbations on Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Electronic Structure: Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy and Density Functional Theory

BN Taber, BW McDowell, JM Mills… - The Journal of …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Understanding the local impact of environmental electronic perturbations on the local
density of states (LDOS) of single-walled carbon nanotubes (CNTs) is critical for developing …

Apparent reversal of molecular orbitals reveals entanglement

P Yu, N Kocić, J Repp, B Siegert, A Donarini - Physical Review Letters, 2017 - APS
The frontier orbital sequence of individual dicyanovinyl-substituted oligothiophene
molecules is studied by means of scanning tunneling microscopy. On NaCl/Cu (111), the …

Torsional impacts on quaterthiophene segments confined within peptidic nanostructures

TS Kale, HAM Ardoña, A Ertel, JD Tovar - Langmuir, 2019 - ACS Publications
The co-assembly behavior of peptide− π–peptide and peptide–alkyl–peptide triblock
molecules that form one-dimensional (1D) nanostructures under acidic, aqueous …

The merging mechanisms of poly (3-hexylthiophene) domains revealed through scanning tunneling microscopy and molecular dynamics simulations

JK Li, MY Shao, ZY Yang, O Guskova - Polymer, 2020 - Elsevier
Herein, we in situ track the merging processes of poly (3-hexylthiophene)(P3HT) domains
physisorbed onto graphite while keeping the domain structures clearly resolved through …

Electronic Structures of Quaterthiophene and Septithiophene on Cu (111): Spatial Distribution of Adsorption-Induced States Studied by STM and DFT Calculation

T Kakudate, S Tsukamoto, O Kubo… - The Journal of …, 2016 - ACS Publications
The oligothiophene molecule family has a tunable energy gap between the highest
occupied and lowest unoccupied molecular orbitals (HOMO and LUMO) as the function of …

[HTML][HTML] Real-space visualization of conformation-independent oligothiophene electronic structure

BN Taber, DA Kislitsyn, CF Gervasi, JM Mills… - The Journal of …, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
We present scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy (STM/STS) investigations of
the electronic structures of different alkyl-substituted oligothiophenes on the Au (111) …

Transport in Molecular Junctions

A Donarini, M Grifoni - Quantum Transport in Interacting Nanojunctions: A …, 2024 - Springer
Correlated single molecule junctions display a fascinating spectrum of different transport
characteristics. We concentrate here on the signatures of the intrinsic electronic correlation …