Conduction properties of bipyridinium-functionalized molecular wires

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 130, Issue 28, 2008, Pages 9013-9018

  Bagrets, Alexei ^a,b   Arnold, Andreas ^a   Evers, Ferdinand ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^b KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTS; LAWS AND LEGISLATION; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOWIRES;

AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY (ACS); BIPYRIDINIUM; COHERENT TRANSPORTS; COMPARISON WITH EXPERIMENTS; CONDUCTANCE SWITCHING; CONDUCTION PROPERTIES; CONTACT GEOMETRY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT (ET); EXPONENTIAL DECAYS; FUNCTIONALIZED; INCOHERENT TRANSPORT; MOLECULAR WIRES; MOLECULAR WIRES (MW); ORDERS-OF-MAGNITUDE; REDOX-ACTIVE; VIOLOGEN; WIRE LENGTHS;

WIRE;

NANOWIRE; PYRIDINIUM DERIVATIVE; VIOLOGEN;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONDUCTANCE; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; GEOMETRY; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; TRANSPORT KINETICS;

EID: 47349100233     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja800459k     Document Type: Article

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