Issue 100, 2014

Highly-effective gating of single-molecule junctions: an electrochemical approach

Abstract

We report an electrochemical gating approach with ∼100% efficiency to tune the conductance of single-molecule 4,4′-bipyridine junctions using scanning-tunnelling-microscopy break junction technique. Density functional theory calculation suggests that electrochemical gating aligns molecular frontier orbitals relative to the electrode Fermi-level, switching the molecule from an off resonance state to “partial” resonance.

Graphical abstract: Highly-effective gating of single-molecule junctions: an electrochemical approach

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Article information

Article type
Communication
Submitted
19 Aug 2014
Accepted
04 Nov 2014
First published
04 Nov 2014

Chem. Commun., 2014,50, 15975-15978

Author version available

Highly-effective gating of single-molecule junctions: an electrochemical approach

M. Baghernejad, D. Z. Manrique, C. Li, T. Pope, U. Zhumaev, I. Pobelov, P. Moreno-García, V. Kaliginedi, C. Huang, W. Hong, C. Lambert and T. Wandlowski, Chem. Commun., 2014, 50, 15975 DOI: 10.1039/C4CC06519K

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