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Highly conducting single-molecule topological insulators based on mono- and di-radical cations
Li, Liang
, Low, Jonathan Z.
, Wilhelm, Jan, Liao, Guanming, Gunasekaran, Suman, Prindle, Claudia R.
, Starr, Rachel L.
, Golze, Dorothea
, Nuckolls, Colin, Steigerwald, Michael L.
, Evers, Ferdinand
, Campos, Luis M., Yin, Xiaodong and Venkataraman, Latha
(2022)
Highly conducting single-molecule topological insulators based on mono- and di-radical cations.
Nature Chemistry 14, pp. 1061-1067.
(In Press)
Date of publication of this fulltext: 12 Jul 2022 15:40
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DOI to cite this document: 10.5283/epub.52608
Abstract
Single-molecule topological insulators are promising candidates as conducting wires over nanometre length scales. A key advantage is their ability to exhibit quasi-metallic transport, in contrast to conjugated molecular wires which typically exhibit a low conductance that decays as the wire length increases. Here, we study a family of oligophenylene-bridged bis(triarylamines) with tunable and ...
Single-molecule topological insulators are promising candidates as conducting wires over nanometre length scales. A key advantage is their ability to exhibit quasi-metallic transport, in contrast to conjugated molecular wires which typically exhibit a low conductance that decays as the wire length increases. Here, we study a family of oligophenylene-bridged bis(triarylamines) with tunable and stable mono- or di-radicaloid character. These wires can undergo one- and two-electron chemical oxidations to the corresponding mono-cation and di-cation, respectively. We show that the oxidized wires exhibit reversed conductance decay with increasing length, consistent with the expectation for Su-Schrieffer-Heeger-type one-dimensional topological insulators. The 2.6-nm-long di-cation reported here displays a conductance greater than 0.1G(0), where G(0) is the conductance quantum, a factor of 5,400 greater than the neutral form. The observed conductance-length relationship is similar between the mono-cation and di-cation series. Density functional theory calculations elucidate how the frontier orbitals and delocalization of radicals facilitate the observed non-classical quasi-metallic behaviour.
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| Item type | Article | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title | Nature Chemistry | ||||||
| Publisher: | Nature | ||||||
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| Place of Publication: | BERLIN | ||||||
| Volume: | 14 | ||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 1061-1067 | ||||||
| Date | 7 July 2022 | ||||||
| Institutions | Physics > Institute of Theroretical Physics > Chair Ferdinand Evers | ||||||
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| Keywords | ELECTRON-TRANSPORT; CHARGE-TRANSPORT; TRANSMISSION; RESISTANCE; JUNCTIONS; CIRCUITS; POLYMERS; SOLITONS | ||||||
| Dewey Decimal Classification | 500 Science > 530 Physics 500 Science > 540 Chemistry & allied sciences | ||||||
| Status | In Press | ||||||
| Refereed | Yes, this version has been refereed | ||||||
| Created at the University of Regensburg | Partially | ||||||
| Item ID | 52608 |
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