Single-molecule junction: A reliable platform for monitoring molecular physical and chemical processes

X Xie, P Li, Y Xu, L Zhou, Y Yan, L Xie, C Jia, X Guo - ACS nano, 2022 - ACS Publications
Monitoring and manipulating the physical and chemical behavior of single molecules is an
important development direction of molecular electronics that aids in understanding the …

Chemical principles of single-molecule electronics

TA Su, M Neupane, ML Steigerwald… - Nature Reviews …, 2016 - nature.com
The field of single-molecule electronics harnesses expertise from engineering, physics and
chemistry to realize circuit elements at the limit of miniaturization; it is a subfield of …

Large-area, ensemble molecular electronics: motivation and challenges

A Vilan, D Aswal, D Cahen - Chemical Reviews, 2017 - ACS Publications
We review charge transport across molecular monolayers, which is central to molecular
electronics (MolEl), using large-area junctions (NmJ). We strive to provide a wide conceptual …

Single-molecule electronics: from chemical design to functional devices

L Sun, YA Diaz-Fernandez, TA Gschneidtner… - Chemical Society …, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
The use of single molecules in electronics represents the next limit of miniaturisation of
electronic devices, which would enable us to continue the trend of aggressive downscaling …

Pyridinic nitrogen exclusively doped carbon materials as efficient oxygen reduction electrocatalysts for Zn-air batteries

Q Lv, N Wang, W Si, Z Hou, X Li, X Wang… - Applied Catalysis B …, 2020 - Elsevier
Rational design a metal-free catalyst with well-defined structure as alternative of noble metal
is highly desirable but challenging to catalyze oxygen reaction for metal–air batteries. In this …

Single-molecule transistors

ML Perrin, E Burzurí, HSJ van der Zant - Chemical Society Reviews, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
The use of a gate electrode allows us to gain deeper insight into the electronic structure of
molecular junctions. It is widely used for spectroscopy of the molecular levels and its excited …

Mechanically controllable break junctions for molecular electronics

D Xiang, H Jeong, T Lee, D Mayer - Advanced Materials, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
A mechanically controllable break junction (MCBJ) represents a fundamental technique for
the investigation of molecular electronic junctions, especially for the study of the electronic …

Molecular electronics with single molecules in solid-state devices

K Moth-Poulsen, T Bjørnholm - Nature nanotechnology, 2009 - nature.com
The ultimate aim of molecular electronics is to understand and master single-molecule
devices. Based on the latest results on electron transport in single molecules in solid-state …

Progress with molecular electronic junctions: meeting experimental challenges in design and fabrication

RL McCreery, AJ Bergren - Advanced materials, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Molecular electronics seeks to incorporate molecular components as functional elements in
electronic devices. There are numerous strategies reported to date for the fabrication …

Plasmonic tunnel junctions for single-molecule redox chemistry

B de Nijs, F Benz, SJ Barrow, DO Sigle… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Nanoparticles attached just above a flat metallic surface can trap optical fields in the
nanoscale gap. This enables local spectroscopy of a few molecules within each coupled …