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ReviewAngewandte Chemie (International ed. in English)2019

Hemilabile Ligands as Mechanosensitive Electrode Contacts for Molecular Electronics.

Nicolò Ferri, Norah Algethami, Andrea Vezzoli, Sara Sangtarash, Maeve McLaughlin, Hatef Sadeghi, Colin J Lambert, Richard J Nichols, Simon J Higgins

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Review in Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English), 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

14 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Odd-even conductance oscillations inScience advances · 2026
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  3. Digging through the (Statistical) Dirt: A Reproducible Method for Single-Molecule Flicker Noise Analysis.The journal of physical chemistry. C, Nanomaterials and interfaces · 2025
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  4. Single-Molecule Mechanoresistivity by Intermetallic Bonding.Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2025
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  5. Toward Practical Single-Molecule/Atom Switches.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2024
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  6. Mechanical Manipulation of Quantum Interference in Single-Molecule Junctions.Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) · 2024
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  14. Hemilabile Ligands as Mechanosensitive Electrode Contacts for Molecular Electronics.Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2019
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Nicolò FerriDepartment of Chemistry, University of Liverpool, Crown Street, Liverpool, L69 7ZD, UK.
Norah AlgethamiDepartment of Physics, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4YB, UK.
Andrea VezzoliDepartment of Chemistry, University of Liverpool, Crown Street, Liverpool, L69 7ZD, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8059-0113
Sara SangtarashDepartment of Physics, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4YB, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1152-5673
Maeve McLaughlinDepartment of Chemistry, University of Liverpool, Crown Street, Liverpool, L69 7ZD, UK.
Hatef SadeghiDepartment of Physics, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4YB, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5398-8620
Colin J LambertDepartment of Physics, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4YB, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2332-9610
Richard J NicholsDepartment of Chemistry, University of Liverpool, Crown Street, Liverpool, L69 7ZD, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1446-8275
Simon J HigginsDepartment of Chemistry, University of Liverpool, Crown Street, Liverpool, L69 7ZD, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3518-9061

Funding

ECH2020 FET Open project 767187Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council EP/M005046/1Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council EP/M014169/1Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council EP/M029522/1Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council EP/N017188/1Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council EP/N03337X/1Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council EP/P027156/1Leverhulme Trust ECF-2017-186Leverhulme Trust ECF-2018-375Medical Research Council MR/S015329/1Medical Research Council MR/S015329/2UKRI MR/S015329/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Single-molecule junctions that are sensitive to compression or elongation are an emerging class of nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS). Although the molecule-electrode interface can be engineered to impart such functionality, most studies to date rely on poorly defined interactions. We focused on this issue by synthesizing molecular wires designed to have chemically defined hemilabile contacts based on (methylthio)thiophene moieties. We measured their conductance as a function of junction size and observed conductance changes of up to two orders of magnitude as junctions were compressed and stretched. Localised interactions between weakly coordinating thienyl sulfurs and the electrodes are responsible for the observed effect and allow reversible monodentate⇄bidentate contact transitions as the junction is modulated in size. We observed an up to ≈100-fold sensitivity boost of the (methylthio)thiophene-terminated molecular wire compared with its non-hemilabile (methylthio)benzene counterpart and demonstrate a previously unexplored application of hemilabile ligands to molecular electronics.

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density functional calculationshemilabile ligandsmolecular devicesmolecular electronicssulfur ligands

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PMID31364249
PMCPMC6899542

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