Beilstein J. Nanotechnol.2016,7, 2057–2064, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.196
conductance of the monolayer after molecular exchange with two different oligophenylenes to shed light on the respective contribution of the solvent-induced structural change and the molecular exchange itself on the conductance increase.
Keywords: molecular electronics; molecular exchange; percolation
networks; Self-assembly; Introduction
Ordered gold nanoparticle monolayers are increasingly applied as templates for molecular resistor networks [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]. Gold nanoparticles serve as conducting nodes and different molecules can bind to the gold nanoparticle using anchoring groups such as
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Figure 1:
(a) Current–voltage relation of 20 µm × 10 µm gold nanoparticle monolayer before (black) and after ...