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Length-Independent Charge Transport in Chimeric Molecular Wires

  • Angew Chem Int Ed Engl. 2016 Nov 7;55(46):14267-14271. doi: 10.1002/anie.201605411.
Austin G Wardrip 1 Amir Mazaheripour 2 Nina Hüsken 2 Jonah-Micah Jocson 2 Andrew Bartlett 2 Robert C Lopez 1 Nathan Frey 3 Cade B Markegard 2 Gregor Kladnik 4 5 Albano Cossaro 4 Luca Floreano 4 Alberto Verdini 4 Anthony M Burke 2 Mary N Dickson 2 Ioannis Kymissis 6 Dean Cvetko 4 5 7 Alberto Morgante 4 8 Sahar Sharifzadeh 3 Hung D Nguyen 2 Alon A Gorodetsky 9 10
Affiliations

Affiliations

  • 1 Department of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, 92697, USA.
  • 2 Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, 92697, USA.
  • 3 Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Boston University, Boston, MA, 02215, USA.
  • 4 CNR-IOM Laboratorio TASC, Trieste, 34149, Italy.
  • 5 Faculty for Mathematics and Physics, University of Ljubljana, Jadranska 19, 1000, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
  • 6 Department of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY, 10027, USA.
  • 7 Institut J. Stefan, Jamova 39, 1000, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
  • 8 Department of Physics, University of Trieste, Trieste, 34128, Italy.
  • 9 Department of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, 92697, USA. alon.gorodetsky@uci.edu.
  • 10 Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, 92697, USA. alon.gorodetsky@uci.edu.
Abstract

Advanced molecular electronic components remain vital for the next generation of miniaturized integrated circuits. Thus, much research effort has been devoted to the discovery of lossless molecular wires, for which the charge transport rate or conductivity is not attenuated with length in the tunneling regime. Herein, we report the synthesis and electrochemical interrogation of DNA-like molecular wires. We determine that the rate of electron transfer through these constructs is independent of their length and propose a plausible mechanism to explain our findings. The reported approach holds relevance for the development of high-performance molecular electronic components and the fundamental study of charge transport phenomena in organic semiconductors.

Keywords

bioinspired materials; charge transport; electrochemistry; molecular wires; organic electronics.

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