Electron tunneling through organic molecules in frozen glasses

Science

Volumn 307, Issue 5706, 2005, Pages 99-102

  Wenger, Oliver S ^a   Leigh, Brian S ^a   Villahermosa, Randy M ^a   Gray, Harry B ^a   Winkler, Jay R ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LUMINESCENCE; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; POLYPEPTIDES; QUENCHING; SOLVENTS; TOLUENE; VAN DER WAALS FORCES;

ELECTRON ACCEPTORS; ELECTRON VOLTS; FROZEN GLASSES; POLYPEPTIDES STRUCTURES;

ELECTRON TUNNELING;

ALKYL GROUP; GLASS; ORGANIC COMPOUND; POLYPEPTIDE; SOLVENT; TETRAHYDROFURAN; TOLUENE;

PHYSICS;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COVALENT BOND; ELECTRON; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; LUMINESCENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 11844265886     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1103818     Document Type: Article

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47. We thank J. Kim, J. Lee, and J. Magyar for several helpful discussions. Supported by BP, the NSF (grant no. CHE-0078809), and the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation. O.S.W. acknowledges a postdoctoral fellowship from the Swiss National Science Foundation and B.S.L, a graduate fellowship from the Parsons Foundation.