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Charges feel the heat

The thermoelectric properties of molecular junctions can now be investigated with scanning tunnelling microscopy. Such experiments provide insights into charge transport in single molecules, which is inaccessible to more standard transport techniques.

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Figure 1: Thermoelectric measurements in a metal–molecule–metal junction.

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Park, H. Charges feel the heat. Nature Mater 6, 330–331 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat1897

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