Electron transport through catechol-functionalized molecular rods

Electrochimica Acta

Volumn 110, Issue , 2013, Pages 709-717

  Kolivoska, Viliam ^a   Moreno García, Pavel ^a   Kaliginedi, Veerabhadrarao ^a   Hong, Wenjing ^a   Mayor, Marcel ^b,c   Weibel, Nicolas ^b   Wandlowski, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Catechol; MCBJ; OPE; Redox switching; Single junction conductance; STM BJ

Indexed keywords

CATECHOL; MCBJ; OPE; REDOX-SWITCHING; SINGLE JUNCTION; STM-BJ;

CYCLIC VOLTAMMETRY; MOLECULES; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; TOPOLOGY; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

PHENOLS;

EID: 84888325249     PISSN: 00134686     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.electacta.2013.02.003     Document Type: Article

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