Issue 45, 2006
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Chemical Communications

Single-molecule electrical studies on a 7 nm long molecular wire

Geoffrey J. Ashwell,*a   Barbara Urasinska,a   Changsheng Wang,b   Martin R. Bryce,b   Iain Gracec  and  Colin J. Lambertc  

* Corresponding authors

a The Nanomaterials Group, School of Chemistry, University of Wales, Bangor, Deiniol Street, Bangor, Gwynedd, UK
E-mail: g.j.ashwell@bangor.ac.uk

b Department of Chemistry, University of Durham, Durham, UK
E-mail: m.r.bryce@durham.ac.uk

c Department of Physics, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK
E-mail: c.lambert@lancaster.ac.uk

Abstract

A self-assembled arylene–ethynylene molecular wire with a rigid 7 nm long backbone exhibits symmetrical current–voltage (I–V) characteristics and a single-molecule current of 0.35 ± 0.05 nA at 0.3 V; these data are supported by theoretical calculations.

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Article information

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/B613347A
Article type
Communication
Submitted
14 Sep 2006
Accepted
09 Oct 2006
First published
26 Oct 2006

Chem. Commun., 2006, 4706-4708

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G. J. Ashwell, B. Urasinska, C. Wang, M. R. Bryce, I. Grace and C. J. Lambert, Chem. Commun., 2006, 4706 DOI: 10.1039/B613347A

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