Nature Communications (May 2017)

High conductance values in π-folded molecular junctions

  • Marco Carini,
  • Marta P. Ruiz,
  • Imanol Usabiaga,
  • José A. Fernández,
  • Emilio J. Cocinero,
  • Manuel Melle-Franco,
  • Ismael Diez-Perez,
  • Aurelio Mateo-Alonso

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15195
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Foldamers are synthetic oligomers that adopt folded conformations through non-covalent intramolecular interactions. Here, Cariniet al. describe a family of foldamers with a large number of anthracene units that are able to transport charge efficiently at the single-molecule level.