Read more
Klappentext This volume concentrates on the measurement, synthesis, assembly and manipulation of molecular wires and nanostructures. Zusammenfassung This volume concentrates on the measurement! synthesis! assembly and manipulation of molecular wires and nanostructures. Inhaltsverzeichnis Spiers Memorial Lecture - Molecular mechanics and molecular electronics; Molecular rectification: stabilised alignment of chevron-shaped dyes in hybrid SAM/LB structures in which the self-assembled monolayer is anionic and the Langmuir-Blodgett layer is cationic; Carbon/molecule/metal molecular electronic junctions: the importance of contacts; Electrical transport in saturated and conjugated molecular wires; Electronic and vibrational structure of one-dimensional conductors and superconductors; Effect of internal conversion of vibrational quanta in electron tunneling: a scheme for direct experimental observation and current/voltage relationships; General Discussion; Controlling charge transport in single molecules using electrochemical gate; Two-dimensional assembly and local redox-activity of molecular hybrid structures in an electrochemical environment; Measuring single molecule conductance with break junctions; DNA-templated assembly of nanoscale architectures for next-generation electronic devices; Metalloprotein tunnel junctions: compressional modulation of barrier height and transport mechanism; Long-range interfacial electron transfer of metalloproteins based on molecular wiring assemblies; Gating current flowing through molecules in metal-molecules-metal junctions; General Discussion; Nanoscale aryleneethynylene oligomers incorporating fluorenone units as electron-dopable molecular wires; Functionalised conjugated materials as building blocks of electronic nanostructures; Thermal gating of the single molecule conductance of alkanedithiols; In situ scanning tunnelling spectroscopy of inorganic transition metal complexes; Fast temporal fluctuations in single-molecule junctions; Influence of bridge topology and torsion on the intramolecular electron transfer; General Discussion; Self-assembled electrical circuits and their electronic properties; Strong electronic coupling between single C60 molecules and gold electrodes prepared by quench condensation at 4 K. A single molecule three terminal device study; Molecular three-terminal devices: fabrication and measurements; Polaronic semiconductor behavior of long-range charge transfer in DNA oligomers in solution: controlling barriers to long-distance radical cation migration in DNA with thymine analogs; Electrical characterization of self-assembled single- and double-stranded DNA monolayers using conductive AFM; The mechanism of long-range electron exchange in molecular-scale photonic wires; General Discussion; Molecular wires and devices: Advances and issues...
