Nature Communications (May 2017)

Single-molecule detection of dihydroazulene photo-thermal reaction using break junction technique

  • Cancan Huang,
  • Martyn Jevric,
  • Anders Borges,
  • Stine T. Olsen,
  • Joseph M. Hamill,
  • Jue-Ting Zheng,
  • Yang Yang,
  • Alexander Rudnev,
  • Masoud Baghernejad,
  • Peter Broekmann,
  • Anne Ugleholdt Petersen,
  • Thomas Wandlowski,
  • Kurt V. Mikkelsen,
  • Gemma C. Solomon,
  • Mogens Brøndsted Nielsen,
  • Wenjing Hong

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15436
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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The conductance across single-molecule junctions is highly dependent on the electronic properties of the molecule in question. Here the authors use this fact to monitor a photo-thermal reaction by analysing break junction data, and observe significant differences compared to solution state behaviour.