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ArticleScience advances2023

Extreme long-lifetime self-assembled monolayer for air-stable molecular junctions.

Ningyue Chen, Shuwei Li, Peng Zhao, Ran Liu, Yu Xie, Jin-Liang Lin, Christian A Nijhuis, Bingqian Xu, Liang Zhang, Huaping Xu and 1 more

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Article in Science advances, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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Ningyue ChenKey Laboratory of Organic Optoelectronics and Molecular Engineering and Laboratory of Flexible Electronics Technology, Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.ORCID 0009-0007-7180-0442
Shuwei LiCenter for Combustion Energy, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.ORCID 0000-0002-5121-1030
Peng ZhaoKey Laboratory of Organic Optoelectronics and Molecular Engineering and Laboratory of Flexible Electronics Technology, Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
Ran LiuSchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-8773-8136
Yu XieKey Laboratory of Organic Optoelectronics and Molecular Engineering and Laboratory of Flexible Electronics Technology, Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
Jin-Liang LinKey Laboratory of Organic Optoelectronics and Molecular Engineering and Laboratory of Flexible Electronics Technology, Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
Christian A NijhuisHybrid Materials for Opto-Electronics Group, Department of Molecules and Materials, MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology, Molecules Centre and Centre for Brain-Inspired Nano Systems, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Twente, 7500 AE Enschede, Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0003-3435-4600
Bingqian XuSchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7873-3162
Liang ZhangCenter for Combustion Energy, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.ORCID 0000-0002-9718-0436
Huaping XuKey Laboratory of Organic Optoelectronics and Molecular Engineering and Laboratory of Flexible Electronics Technology, Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.ORCID 0000-0002-7530-7264
Yuan LiKey Laboratory of Organic Optoelectronics and Molecular Engineering and Laboratory of Flexible Electronics Technology, Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.ORCID 0000-0002-4204-2992

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The molecular electronic devices based on self-assembled monolayer (SAM) on metal surfaces demonstrate novel electronic functions for device minimization yet are unable to realize in practical applications, due to their instability against oxidation of the sulfur-metal bond. This paper describes an alternative to the thiolate anchoring group to form stable SAMs on gold by selenides anchoring group. Because of the formation of strong selenium-gold bonds, these stable SAMs allow us to incorporate them in molecular tunnel junctions to yield extremely stable junctions for over 200 days. A detailed structural characterization supported by spectroscopy and first-principles modeling shows that the oxidation process is much slower with the selenium-gold bond than the sulfur-gold bond, and the selenium-gold bond is strong enough to avoid bond breaking even when it is eventually oxidized. This proof of concept demonstrates that the extraordinarily stable SAMs derived from selenides are useful for long-lived molecular electronic devices and can possibly become important in many air-stable applications involving SAMs.

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