Molecular Wires and Nanoscale Conductors: Faraday Discussions, cartea 131

Spiers Memorial Lecture - Molecular mechanics and molecular electronics; Molecular rectification: stabilised alignment of chevron-shaped dyes in hybrid SAM/LB structures in which the self-assembled monolayer is anionic and the Langmuir-Blodgett layer is cationic; Carbon/molecule/metal molecular electronic junctions: the importance of contacts; Electrical transport in saturated and conjugated molecular wires; Electronic and vibrational structure of one-dimensional conductors and superconductors; Effect of internal conversion of vibrational quanta in electron tunneling: a scheme for direct experimental observation and current/voltage relationships; General Discussion; Controlling charge transport in single molecules using electrochemical gate; Two-dimensional assembly and local redox-activity of molecular hybrid structures in an electrochemical environment; Measuring single molecule conductance with break junctions; DNA-templated assembly of nanoscale architectures for next-generation electronic devices; Metalloprotein tunnel junctions: compressional modulation of barrier height and transport mechanism; Long-range interfacial electron transfer of metalloproteins based on molecular wiring assemblies; Gating current flowing through molecules in metal-molecules-metal junctions; General Discussion; Nanoscale aryleneethynylene oligomers incorporating fluorenone units as electron-dopable molecular wires; Functionalised conjugated materials as building blocks of electronic nanostructures; Thermal gating of the single molecule conductance of alkanedithiols; In situ scanning tunnelling spectroscopy of inorganic transition metal complexes; Fast temporal fluctuations in single-molecule junctions; Influence of bridge topology and torsion on the intramolecular electron transfer; General Discussion; Self-assembled electrical circuits and their electronic properties; Strong electronic coupling between single C60 molecules and gold electrodes prepared by quench condensation at 4 K. A single molecule three terminal device study; Molecular three-terminal devices: fabrication and measurements; Polaronic semiconductor behavior of long-range charge transfer in DNA oligomers in solution: controlling barriers to long-distance radical cation migration in DNA with thymine analogs; Electrical characterization of self-assembled single- and double-stranded DNA monolayers using conductive AFM; The mechanism of long-range electron exchange in molecular-scale photonic wires; General Discussion; Molecular wires and devices: Advances and issues