Electronic devices articles within Nature Chemistry

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• Article | 02 April 2018

  High phase-purity 1T′-MoS₂- and 1T′-MoSe₂-layered crystals

  The phase in which a crystal exists can have a direct influence over its properties; however, it is usually difficult to control during synthesis. Now it has been shown that micrometre-sized metallic 1T′-MoS₂- and 1T′-MoSe₂-layered crystals can be prepared in high phase purity on a large scale, and that they display promising electrocatalytic activity towards the hydrogen evolution reaction.

  • Yifu Yu
  • , Gwang-Hyeon Nam
  •  & Hua Zhang

• News & Views | 21 October 2016

  Hot holes break the speed limit

  Charge transfer through DNA has been well studied over recent decades from both a biological and electronics perspective. It has now been shown that charge transfer can be accelerated one hundredfold by using highly energetic 'hot holes', revealing a new mechanism that could help to create useful electronic biomaterials.

  • D. N. Beratan
  •  & D. H. Waldeck

• Article | 15 August 2016

  Mechanically controlled quantum interference in individual π-stacked dimers

  Single-molecule junctions provide a unique platform to understand how molecular structure affects electronic transport. Now it has been shown that electronic transport through a π-stacked dimer can be precisely controlled when pulling it apart. This behaviour is caused by quantum interference effects that are turned ON or OFF depending on dimer conformation.

  • Riccardo Frisenda
  • , Vera A. E. C. Janssen
  •  & Nicolas Renaud

• News & Views | 01 May 2010

  Seeing both sides

  To improve organic electronic devices, the principles underlying organic-film/metal-electrode interfaces must be understood. A comprehensive study of the organic electron acceptor TCNQ on a copper surface reveals a structural rearrangement of both the organic molecule and the metal surface atoms after charge transfer across the interface.

  • Clara Santato
  •  & Federico Rosei

• Article | 07 February 2010

  Exploring local currents in molecular junctions

  A methodology for describing local electronic transmission through bridging molecules between metallic electrodes is presented. Its application to simple alkane, phenyl and cross-conjugated systems highlights an unexpected number of cases whereby ‘through space’, rather than ‘through bond’ terms dominate and that interference effects coincide with the reversal of ring currents.

  • Gemma C. Solomon
  • , Carmen Herrmann
  •  & Mark A. Ratner