Three-State Single-Molecule Naphthalenediimide Switch: Integration of a Pendant Redox Unit for Conductance Tuning

Li, Yonghai; Baghernejad, Masoud; Qusiy, Al-Galiby; Zsolt Manrique, David; Zhang, Guanxin; Hamill, Joseph; Fu, Yongchun; Broekmann, Peter; Hong, Wenjing; Wandlowski, Thomas; Zhang, Deqing; Lambert, Colin

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Three-State Single-Molecule Naphthalenediimide Switch: Integration of a Pendant Redox Unit for Conductance Tuning

Li, Yonghai; Baghernejad, Masoud; Qusiy, Al-Galiby et al.

2015 • In Angewandte Chemie, 54 (46), p. 13586–13589

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break junction; electrochemical gating; molecular electronics; naphthalenediimide; single molecule studies

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[en] We studied charge transport through core-substituted naphthalenediimide (NDI) single-molecule junctions using the electrochemical STM-based break-junction technique in combination with DFT calculations. Conductance switching among three well-defined states was demonstrated by electrochemically controlling the redox state of the pendent diimide unit of the molecule in an ionic liquid. The electrical conductances of the dianion and neutral states differ by more than one order of magnitude. The potential-dependence of the charge-transport characteristics of the NDI molecules was confirmed by DFT calculations, which account for electrochemical double-layer effects on the conductance of the NDI junctions. This study suggests that integration of a pendant redox unit with strong coupling to a molecular backbone enables the tuning of charge transport through single-molecule devices by controlling their redox states.

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Chemistry
Physics

Author, co-author :

Li, Yonghai ^✱

Baghernejad, Masoud ^✱

Qusiy, Al-Galiby ^✱

Zsolt Manrique, David ^✱

Zhang, Guanxin ^✱

Hamill, Joseph ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Molecular Systems (MolSys)

Fu, Yongchun

Broekmann, Peter

Hong, Wenjing

Wandlowski, Thomas

Zhang, Deqing

Lambert, Colin ^✱

^✱ These authors have contributed equally to this work.

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English

Title :

Three-State Single-Molecule Naphthalenediimide Switch: Integration of a Pendant Redox Unit for Conductance Tuning

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2015

Journal title :

Angewandte Chemie

ISSN :

0170-9046

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WILEY-VCH Verlag

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Issue :

Pages :

13586–13589

Peer reviewed :

Peer reviewed

European Projects :

FP7 - 606728 - MOLESCO - MOLECULAR-SCALE ELECTRONICS: Concepts, Contacts and Stability "MOLESCO"

Name of the research project :

MOLESCO

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Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
European Union

Funding number :

606728

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