Flexible molecular wires

Berlin-Graz team of scientists developed molecular wires with high conductivity and flexibility

Credit: Uni Graz/Grill

In a long-standing collaboration with the Grill group we used our on-surface polymerization route to prepare alternating donor-acceptor polymers, which exhibit excellent single molecule conductance in combination with high flexibility. The work was just published in Nature Communications.

Publication

Conductance of a single flexible molecular wire composed of alternating donor and acceptor units. C. Nacci, F. Ample, D. Bleger, S. Hecht, C. Joachim, and L. GrillNature Communications 6, 7397 (2015) DOI: 10.1038/ncomms8397

Contact

Prof. Stefan Hecht, Ph.D.
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Institute for Chemistry and IRIS Adlershof
Tel.: 030 2093-7365
sh(at)chemie.hu-berlin.de