Molecular Design towards Controlling Charge Transport

Mohammad Ahmad Awais; Zhengxu Cai; Na Zhang; Luping Yu

doi:10.1002/chem.201803054

Molecular Design towards Controlling Charge Transport

Chemistry. 2018 Nov 22;24(65):17180-17187. doi: 10.1002/chem.201803054. Epub 2018 Sep 27.

Authors

Mohammad Ahmad Awais¹, Zhengxu Cai², Na Zhang¹, Luping Yu¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Chemistry and The James Franck Institute, The University of Chicago, 1929 E 57th Street, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA.
² Beijing Key Laboratory of Construction Tailorable Advanced Functional, Materials and Green Applications, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, 25 South Zhongguancun Street, Beijing, 100081, P. R. China.

PMID: 30086195
DOI: 10.1002/chem.201803054

Abstract

Organic electronics generally deals with bulk, statistically averaged electrical properties of organic materials. Single-molecule electronic devices can then be viewed as linkers to these bulk properties. However, controlling charge transport in single-molecule systems still remains a formidable task and has prevented proliferation of these systems from research laboratories to household electronics. This Concept article provides a general overview of the recent advances made by our group in the field. We will describe several concepts in designing molecular functions towards controlling charge transport through molecular systems. It should be noted, however, that this Concept article is by no means comprehensive and readers should look elsewhere for a more comprehensive picture of molecular electronics.

Keywords: charge transport; ladder molecules; organic materials; single-molecule conductance; single-molecule electronics.