Single-Molecule Junction Conductance through Diaminoacenes

Details Single-Molecule Junction Conductance through Diaminoacenes Single-Molecule Junction Conductance through Diaminoacenes

2007-05-23

arxiv.org/abs/0705.3374v1

JACS 2007, 129, 6714-6715

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

2 pages, 3 figures

Scientific paper

10.1021/ja0715804

The study of electron transport through single molecules is essential to the development of molecular electronics. Indeed, trends in electronic conductance through organic nanowires have emerged with the increasing reliability of electron transport measurements at the single-molecule level. Experimental and theoretical work has shown that tunneling distance, HOMO-LUMO gap and molecular conformation influence electron transport in both saturated and pi-conjugated nanowires. However, there is relatively little experimental data on electron transport through fused aromatic rings. Here we show using diaminoacenes that conductivity depends not only on the number of fused aromatic rings in the molecule, which defines the molecular HOMO-LUMO gap, but also on the position of the amino groups on the rings. Specifically, we find that conductance is highest with minimal disruption of aromaticity in fused aromatic nanowires.

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