Chemical tailoring of the charging energy in metal cluster arrangements by use of bifunctional spacer molecules

Abstract

The insertion of bifunctional spacer molecules into a three-dimensional arrangement of Pd₅₆₁phen₃₆O₂₀₀ clusters leads to an increase of the charging energy from 0.02 eV to 0.05 eV, which was determined from the temperature dependence of the conductivity.

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