Current-induced mechanical torque in chiral molecular rotors

• Richard Korytár and
• Ferdinand Evers

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2023, 14, 711–721, doi:10.3762/bjnano.14.57

• crossover between both regimes. To exemplify our results, we employ a helical geometry. Helical molecular wires have sparked a lot of attention because of reports of spin-selective transport [16][17][18]. This phenomenon falls under the umbrella term “chirality-induced spin selectivity (CISS)”. The full

Impact of electron–phonon coupling on electron transport through T-shaped arrangements of quantum dots in the Kondo regime

• Patryk Florków and
• Stanisław Lipiński

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2021, 12, 1209–1225, doi:10.3762/bjnano.12.89

• also a great interest in the interplay of strong correlations and interference in multiply connected geometries, for example, in T-shaped systems, where a dot or a molecule are side-coupled to a quantum wire [18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26]. Sidewall chemical functionalization of molecular wires is

Molecular assemblies on surfaces: towards physical and electronic decoupling of organic molecules

• Sabine Maier and
• Meike Stöhr

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2021, 12, 950–956, doi:10.3762/bjnano.12.71

• images were successfully demonstrated [67]. Additionally, electroluminescence was reported for suspended molecular wires between a metallic surface and the tip of a scanning tunneling microscope [14]. Moreover, the decoupling brings considerable benefits for surface-supported molecular switches, in

Advanced atomic force microscopy techniques III

• Thilo Glatzel and
• Thomas Schimmel

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 1052–1054, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.98

• . Combined AFM and STM measurements reveal related force and electronic properties [9], energy dissipation in manipulation processes can be examined via the excitation voltage needed to keep a constant amplitude of the probe oscillation [10][11], pulling forces of atomic or molecular wires can be determined

Rigid multipodal platforms for metal surfaces

• Michal Valášek,
• Marcin Lindner and
• Marcel Mayor

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 374–405, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.34

• over the arrangement of the protruding rod-type molecular structures (e.g., molecular wires, switches, rotors, sensors) with respect to the surface of the substrate. Keywords: multivalent anchoring; protruding structure; spatial arrangement; tripodal platform; Introduction Molecular electronics, as

Electrospray deposition of organic molecules on bulk insulator surfaces

• Antoine Hinaut,
• Rémy Pawlak,
• Ernst Meyer and
• Thilo Glatzel

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 1927–1934, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.195

• stabilization can be explained by a dominant molecule–molecule interaction by π–π-stacking [29][37][44][45]. Due to the symmetric arrangement of the two 3-cyanophenyl groups the electrostatic binding to the surface is only small and the molecular wires might easily flip or rearrange explaining the low stability

Electrical properties and mechanical stability of anchoring groups for single-molecule electronics

• Riccardo Frisenda,
• Simge Tarkuç,
• Elena Galán,
• Mickael L. Perrin,
• Rienk Eelkema,
• Ferdinand C. Grozema and
• Herre S. J. van der Zant

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 1558–1567, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.159

• to gold break-junction electrodes. Additionally, they report that the mechanical stability and the probability of forming a junction is highest for Py, followed by SH. Moreno-García et al. [15] recently compared a series of oligoyne molecular wires with Py, NH2, CN, SH and benzothiophene (BT) as

Electrical characterization of single molecule and Langmuir–Blodgett monomolecular films of a pyridine-terminated oligo(phenylene-ethynylene) derivative

• Henrry M. Osorio,
• Santiago Martín,
• María Carmen López,
• Santiago Marqués-González,
• Simon J. Higgins,
• Richard J. Nichols,
• Paul J. Low and
• Pilar Cea

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 1145–1157, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.116

• efficient pyridyl–Au contacts. Previous contributions in the field have shown that the charge transport in molecular wires incorporating electron-withdrawing pyridyl-type anchoring groups is preferentially controlled by the lowest unoccupied molecular orbital (LUMO). That is, the pyridyl group decreases the

Dimer/tetramer motifs determine amphiphilic hydrazine fibril structures on graphite

• Loji K. Thomas,
• Nadine Diek,
• Uwe Beginn and
• Michael Reichling

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2012, 3, 658–666, doi:10.3762/bjnano.3.75

• 1CHn-10 and 2CHd-10 to produce fibrils (as evident from the AFM images), the absence of grain boundaries and single/multiple steps near the molecular wires [25] (which are the two most important causes for their appearance), and the discrepancy in periodicities between molecular structures and reported

X-ray spectroscopy characterization of self-assembled monolayers of nitrile-substituted oligo(phenylene ethynylene)s with variable chain length

• Hicham Hamoudi,
• Ping Kao,
• Alexei Nefedov,
• David L. Allara and
• Michael Zharnikov

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2012, 3, 12–24, doi:10.3762/bjnano.3.2

• properties of several potential molecular wires, including alkyl, oligophenyl, and oligo(phenylene ethynylene) (OPE) chains have been studied by a variety of different techniques including, for example, conducting-probe mercury drops [3][4][5], break junctions [6][7][8][9][10][11], scanning-microscopy tips

• [12][13][14][15][16][17][18], in-wire junctions [9], and cross-nanowire junctions [19]. For most of these measurements the molecular wires were assembled on a conductive substrate, serving as the bottom electrode, by using self-assembled monolayer (SAM) methods. For this purpose, oligomeric chains

• available molecular wires [22][23]. Second, the electrical properties of the OPE derivatives can be varied significantly by relatively minor chemical modifications [1][13][17][24][25]. In particular, a nonfunctionalized OPE-type molecule behaves as a molecular rectifier [23], whereas, when functionalized in

Towards quantitative accuracy in first-principles transport calculations: The GW method applied to alkane/gold junctions

• Mikkel Strange and
• Kristian S. Thygesen

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2011, 2, 746–754, doi:10.3762/bjnano.2.82

• can be bound directly to gold electrodes without the use of anchoring groups [51]. The transport mechanism in (short) saturated molecular wires is coherent tunneling through molecular orbitals with energy far from the Fermi energy. The trend of conductance versus chain length (n) thus follows an

An MCBJ case study: The influence of π-conjugation on the single-molecule conductance at a solid/liquid interface

• Wenjing Hong,
• Hennie Valkenier,
• Gábor Mészáros,
• David Zsolt Manrique,
• Artem Mishchenko,
• Alexander Putz,
• Pavel Moreno García,
• Colin J. Lambert,
• Jan C. Hummelen and
• Thomas Wandlowski

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2011, 2, 699–713, doi:10.3762/bjnano.2.76

• conductance of single-molecule junctions of oligophenylene ethynylene (OPE)-type molecules contacted to gold leads. We have chosen three rigid dithiolated molecular wires with different conjugation patterns: An anthracene-based linearly conjugated wire (AC), an anthraquinone-based cross-conjugated wire (AQ

• the anthracene-based linearly conjugated wire AC and of the molecular wire with broken symmetry AH will be communicated elsewhere [14][56]. The three dithiol-terminated molecular wires were synthesized with acetyl-protecting groups. Careful MCBJ and STM-BJ screening experiments with AC indicated that

• the onset of UV–vis spectra in CH2Cl2 [14]. Based on these data we conclude that transport through AQ-type molecular junctions is HOMO-dominated. The coupling parameter Γ appears to be rather small as compared to those for other dithiole-terminated molecular wires attached to gold leads [1][18]. These

Oriented growth of porphyrin-based molecular wires on ionic crystals analysed by nc-AFM

• Thilo Glatzel,
• Lars Zimmerli,
• Shigeki Kawai,
• Ernst Meyer,
• Leslie-Anne Fendt and
• Francois Diederich

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2011, 2, 34–39, doi:10.3762/bjnano.2.4

• Abstract The growth of molecular assemblies at room temperature on insulating surfaces is one of the main goals in the field of molecular electronics. Recently, the directed growth of porphyrin-based molecular wires on KBr(001) was presented. The molecule–surface interaction associated with a strong dipole

• molecular assemblies can be formed. The electronic decoupling of the molecules by one or two monolayers of KBr from the Cu(111) substrate is found to be insufficient to enable comparable growth conditions to bulk ionic materials. Keywords: directed growth; KBr; molecular wires; NaCl; nc-AFM; porphyrin

• studies by non-contact atomic force microscopy (nc-AFM) were done on ionic crystals with adsorbed PTCDA [17][18][19][20][21][22], PTCDI [23] or C60 [24]. In the case of porphyrins, the growth [25][26][27] and electronic properties [28] of stable, monolayered molecular wires on KBr(001) with a length of up