Using a scanning tunnelling microscopy-based method it is now possible to get an atomistic-level description of the most probable binding and contact configuration for single-molecule electrical junctions.
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Nichols, R., Higgins, S. Single-molecule contacts exposed. Nature Mater 14, 465–466 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat4225
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