Conductance of a single conjugated polymer as a continuous function of its length

Science

Volumn 323, Issue 5918, 2009, Pages 1193-1197

  Lafferentz, Leif ^a   Ample, Francisco ^b   Yu, Hao ^c   Hecht, Stefan ^c   Joachim, Christian ^b   Grill, Leonhard ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b CEMES CNRS   (France)

^c HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORENE; NANOPARTICLE; OLIGOMER; POLYMER;

ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; MECHANICAL PROPERTY; POLYMER;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CONDUCTANCE; CONFORMATION; CONJUGATION; ELECTRICITY; ELECTRODE; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY;

EID: 61349093529     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1168255     Document Type: Article

References (29)

1. C. Joachim, J. K. Gimzewski, A. Aviram, Nature 408, 541 (2000).
2. A. Nitzan, Annu. Rev. Phys. Chem. 52, 681 (2001).
3. A. Nitzan, M. A. Ratner, Science 300, 1384 (2003).
4. N. J. Tao, Nat. Nanotechnol. 1, 173 (2006).
5. C. Joachim, J. K. Gimzewski, R. R. Schlittler, C. Chavy, Phys. Rev. Lett. 74, 2102 (1995).
6. M. A. Reed, C. Zhou, C. J. Muller, T. P. Burgin, J. M. Tour, Science 278, 252 (1997).
7. R. M. H. Smit et al., Nature 419, 906 (2002).
8. J. Reichert et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 176804 (2002).
9. S. Wu et al., Nat. Nanotechnol. 3, 569 (2008).
10. M. Kiguchi et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 046801 (2008).
11. B. Xu, N. J. Tao, Science 301, 1221 (2003).
12. W. Haiss et al., J. Am. Chem. Soc. 125, 15294 (2003).
13. X. Xiao, B. Xu, N. Tao, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 126, 5370 (2004).
14. J. He et al., J. Am. Chem. Soc. 127, 1384 (2005).
15. S. H. Choi, B. Kim, C. D. Frisbie, Science 320, 1482 (2008).
16. W. Haiss et al., Nat. Mater. 5, 995 (2006).
17. R. Temirov, A. Lassise, F. B. Anders, F. S. Tautz, Nanotechnology 19, 065401 (2008).
18. F. Kühner, M. Erdmann, H. E. Gaub, Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 218301 (2006).
19. S. K. Kufer, E. M. Puchner, H. Gumpp, T. Liedl, H. E. Gaub, Science 319, 594 (2008).
20. T. Zambelli et al., Int. J. Nanoscience 3, 331 (2004).
21. L. Grill et al., Nat. Nanotechnol. 2, 687 (2007).
22. Materials and methods are available as supporting material on Science Online.
23. L. Limot, J. Kröger, R. Berndt, A. Garcia-Lekue, W. A. Hofer, Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 126102 (2005).
24. C. Joachim, M. A. Ratner, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 102, 8801 (2005).
25. M. Magoga, C. Joachim, Phys. Rev. B 56, 4722 (1997).
26. M. Magoga, C. Joachim, Phys. Rev. B 57, 1820 (1998).
27. D. Neher, Macromol. Rapid Commun. 22, 1365 (2001).
28. C. Joachim, M. Magoga, Chem. Phys. 281, 347 (2002).
29. Financial support from the European Integrated Project PICO INSIDE and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) through SFB 658 and contract GR 2697/1-2 is gratefully acknowledged.