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

• revealed that the π orbitals of the pyridines contributed to the physisorption of the tripodal platform on gold. Measurements of single-molecule conductance were successfully carried out using modified STM techniques for single-molecule junctions that consisted of the tripodal anchors and a diphenyl

• lanthanide sandwich complexes. They studied the electrochemical behavior and stability of these redox-active molecules both in solution and in SAMs on gold electrodes and found that employing the sulfanylated tripodal platform significantly enhanced the stability and the lateral order of the molecules on