Large amplitude conductance gating in a wired redox molecule

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 1, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1541-1546

  Davis, Jason J ^a   Peters, Ben ^a   Xi, Wang ^a   Appel, Jeroen ^b   Kros, Alexander ^b   Aartsma, Thijs J ^c   Stan, Razvan ^c   Canters, Gerard W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS; ELECTROCHEMICAL SWITCHING; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; FURTHER DEVELOPMENT; HETEROGENEOUS ELECTRON TRANSFER RATE CONSTANT; IN-SITU; LARGE AMPLITUDE; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; REDOX ACTIVITY; REDOX MOLECULES;

ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; MOLECULAR ELECTRONICS; MOLECULES; PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS; RATE CONSTANTS; REDOX REACTIONS;

SWITCHING;

EID: 77952706889     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz100375m     Document Type: Article

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