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Effects of electronic coupling and electrostatic potential on charge transport in carbon-based molecular electronic junctions

  • Richard L. McCreery

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 32–46, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.4

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  • absence of the AB molecule. In order to assess the effects of molecular structure on electronic coupling, several series of oligomers between G9 fragments were calculated, which differ in the degree of conjugation, including alkanes, alkene, and alkynes, with the results summarized in Table 4 and Figure 7
  • energies and coupling calculated for both the optimized and planar configurations for a wide range of model structures. The G9 rings were close to coplanar for both the optimized and planar structures, and some of the alkanes were chosen to be rigid, such as cyclohexane and decalin. For the conjugated
  • separation of the G9 “contacts” increases, and logically must reach zero at infinite molecular layer thickness. The increase in coupling with distance calculated for alkenes and alkynes is unexpected, although it is small compared to the differences between alkanes, vacuum, and aromatics. The alkene and
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Published 11 Jan 2016

Vibration-mediated Kondo transport in molecular junctions: conductance evolution during mechanical stretching

  • David Rakhmilevitch and
  • Oren Tal

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 2417–2422, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.249

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  • from electron–vibration interaction, to junction stretching. Interestingly, for off-resonance electron–vibration interaction, it was shown that stretching of simple atomic scale junctions such as suspended gold atomic chains or molecular junctions based on n-alkanes can increase the inelastic
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Published 17 Dec 2015

Entropy effects in the collective dynamic behavior of alkyl monolayers tethered to Si(111)

  • Christian Godet

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 583–594, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.60

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  • of 52 ± 5 meV for the activation energy of Δε (B2) (Figure 7). This trans–gauche isomerization energy for tethered n-alkyl chains is larger than the value deduced from the density of vibrational states for short n-alkanes in the liquid phase (34 meV) [55][56] and comparable to that of perfluoro-n
  • -alkanes (44 meV) [57]. However, an accurate quantification of the number of gauche defects would require an estimate of the dipole moments for all non-centrosymmetric methylene conformations, which will depend on details of the trans–gauche sequences. Vibrational spectroscopy and molecular dynamics
  • Thermal bath excitations (227 ± 10 cm−1) revealed by dipolar relaxation dynamics can be compared with vibrational energies of n-alkanes, either in the liquid phase or in a two-dimensionally tethered phase. For n-alkanes in the liquid phase, low vibration energies correspond to skeletal deformations, i.e
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Published 26 Feb 2015

The influence of molecular mobility on the properties of networks of gold nanoparticles and organic ligands

  • Edwin J. Devid,
  • Paulo N. Martinho,
  • M. Venkata Kamalakar,
  • Úna Prendergast,
  • Christian Kübel,
  • Tibebe Lemma,
  • Jean-François Dayen,
  • Tia. E. Keyes,
  • Bernard Doudin,
  • Mario Ruben and
  • Sense Jan van der Molen

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 1664–1674, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.177

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  • switchable molecular devices [11][12]. The process can also be used for non-thiol ligands [13]. Here, we extend this self-assembly procedure beyond alkanes, making use of an attractive class of molecular ligands. Molecules of the tridentate 2,6-bi(pyrazolyl)pyridine (BPP) group are well known to act as weak
  • molecular exchange [9][30]. We note that the latter type of arrays does contain a mixture of OPE molecules and alkanes, unlike our Au-NP–S-BPP arrays. Room-temperature Raman spectroscopy of 2D Au-NP–S-BPP arrays In order to get more insight into the binding of the S-BPP molecules to the gold as well as to
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Published 29 Sep 2014

Liquid fuel cells

  • Grigorii L. Soloveichik

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 1399–1418, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.153

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  • the other side, the presence of allyl hydrogen atoms in additives reduced the overpotential. A cell with a porous Pt/PTFE anode and cathode catalysts running on decane showed a maximum power density of 21 mW/cm2 (O2 cathode) and 17 mW/cm2 (air cathode) [43]. The addition of iso-alkanes to the fuel
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Published 29 Aug 2014

Organic and inorganic–organic thin film structures by molecular layer deposition: A review

  • Pia Sundberg and
  • Maarit Karppinen

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 1104–1136, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.123

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  • alkanes is induced by UV radiation after precursor pulsing steps [55][56]. However, as the hybrid systems seem to be sensitive regarding the process parameters, especially considering pulsing and purging times, there are systems with r values which are considerably higher than 1, e.g., TMA+heptanedioic
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Published 22 Jul 2014

Insect attachment on crystalline bioinspired wax surfaces formed by alkanes of varying chain lengths

  • Elena Gorb,
  • Sandro Böhm,
  • Nadine Jacky,
  • Louis-Philippe Maier,
  • Kirstin Dening,
  • Sasha Pechook,
  • Boaz Pokroy and
  • Stanislav Gorb

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 1031–1041, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.116

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  • polydimethylsiloxane semi-spheres) on bioinspired wax surfaces formed by four alkanes of varying chain lengths (C36H74, C40H82, C44H90, and C50H102). All these highly hydrophobic coatings were composed of crystals having similar morphologies but differing in size and distribution/density, and exhibited different
  • surface roughness. The crystal size (length and thickness) decreased with an increase of the chain length of the alkanes that formed these surfaces, whereas the density of the wax coverage, as well as the surface roughness, showed an opposite relationship. Traction tests demonstrated a significant, up to
  • shape, we decided, instead of using native plant wax surfaces, to use bioinspired wax surfaces covered by crystals having a similar morphology. Bioinspired surfaces were made of long-chain hydrocarbons, which can be dominating chemical constituents in plant waxes [22]. Four n-alkanes of varying chain
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Published 14 Jul 2014

Focused electron beam induced deposition: A perspective

  • Michael Huth,
  • Fabrizio Porrati,
  • Christian Schwalb,
  • Marcel Winhold,
  • Roland Sachser,
  • Maja Dukic,
  • Jonathan Adams and
  • Georg Fantner

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2012, 3, 597–619, doi:10.3762/bjnano.3.70

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  • alkanes, silanes, metal halogens, carbonyls, phosphines, acetylacetonates and so forth. In the following the focus is on organometallic precursors. Popular representatives for the transition metals are carbonyls, such as W(CO)6 or Co2(CO)8, but also more complex precursors, such as Me3Pt(IV)CpMe. For
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Published 29 Aug 2012

Towards quantitative accuracy in first-principles transport calculations: The GW method applied to alkane/gold junctions

  • Mikkel Strange and
  • Kristian S. Thygesen

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2011, 2, 746–754, doi:10.3762/bjnano.2.82

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  • results cannot be mimicked by DFT calculations employing a simple scissors operator. Keywords: alkanes; density functional theory; electron transport; gold junction; GW; Introduction The conductance of a molecule sandwiched between metallic electrodes is sensitive to the chemical and electronic
  • investigated experimentally [1][12][33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44]. We focus here on the amine-linked alkanes to avoid the uncertainties related to the gold–thiol contact geometry, which is presently under debate [45][46][47][48][49][50]. We note that very recently it was shown that alkanes
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Published 09 Nov 2011

STM visualisation of counterions and the effect of charges on self-assembled monolayers of macrocycles

  • Tibor Kudernac,
  • Natalia Shabelina,
  • Wael Mamdouh,
  • Sigurd Höger and
  • Steven De Feyter

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2011, 2, 674–680, doi:10.3762/bjnano.2.72

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  • the corresponding unit cell. Based on the STM contrast, on measurements of the area available for adsorption of alkyl chains, and on the ideal periodicity for physisorbed alkanes on graphite [18][19], it can be concluded that only eight out of twelve alkyl chains are adsorbed on graphite. STM images
  • ). The iodide ions are depicted in black and highlighted by a red circle. Based on the STM contrasts, measurements of the area available for adsorption of alkyl chains, and the ideal periodicity for physisorbed alkanes on graphite [18][19], it can be concluded that only eight out of twelve alkyl chains
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Published 11 Oct 2011

Recrystallization of tubules from natural lotus (Nelumbo nucifera) wax on a Au(111) surface

  • Sujit Kumar Dora and
  • Klaus Wandelt

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2011, 2, 261–267, doi:10.3762/bjnano.2.30

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  • and is a well known substrate for the study of self-assembly of a number of different organic molecules, e.g., long chain alkanes [12][13], both aliphatic and aromatic thiols [14][15][16], substituted porphyrins [17][18], substituted pyridines [19], 1-nitronapthalene [20], saccharin [21], substituted
  • aliphatic chains results in epitaxial growth on HOPG due to their well matched atomic distances. For example, Watel et al. [24] have shown for long chain alkanes that the carbon skeleton lies parallel to the HOPG surface. On the other hand, epitaxial growth of long chain alkanes on Au(111) resulted in a
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Published 25 May 2011

Superhydrophobicity in perfection: the outstanding properties of the lotus leaf

  • Hans J. Ensikat,
  • Petra Ditsche-Kuru,
  • Christoph Neinhuis and
  • Wilhelm Barthlott

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2011, 2, 152–161, doi:10.3762/bjnano.2.19

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  • ) show that the wax of the upper side contains ca. 65% of various nonacosanediols and only 22% of nonacosan-10-ol, whereas the wax of the underside contains predominantly nonacosan-10-ol (53%) and only 15% of diols, together with 18% of alkanes. The remaining 13% and 14% could not be identified. This
  • various diols and only 22% of nonacosan-10-ol (C29-10-ol), 13% was unidentified; the underside wax contains 53% nonacosan-10-ol and only 15% of various diols. Alkanes (18%) were only found in the underside wax and may be an essential part of the underlying wax film. X-ray diffraction diagram of upperside
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Published 10 Mar 2011

Biomimetics inspired surfaces for drag reduction and oleophobicity/philicity

  • Bharat Bhushan

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2011, 2, 66–84, doi:10.3762/bjnano.2.9

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  • et al. [54] showed that surface curvature, in conjunction with chemical composition and roughened texture, can be used for liquids with low surface tension, including alkanes such as decane and octane. Liu et al. [18] performed experiments in a solid-water-oil interface. They found that hydrophilic
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Published 01 Feb 2011
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