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Length‐Independent Charge Transport in Chimeric Molecular Wires |
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| Authors: | Austin G. Wardrip Amir Mazaheripour Dr. Nina Hüsken Jonah‐Micah Jocson Andrew Bartlett Robert C. Lopez Nathan Frey Cade B. Markegard Dr. Gregor Kladnik Dr. Albano Cossaro Dr. Luca Floreano Dr. Alberto Verdini Dr. Anthony M. Burke Mary N. Dickson Prof. Ioannis Kymissis Prof. Dean Cvetko Prof. Alberto Morgante Prof. Sahar Sharifzadeh Prof. Hung D. Nguyen Prof. Alon A. Gorodetsky |
| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA;2. Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA;3. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA;4. CNR-IOM Laboratorio TASC, Trieste, Italy;5. Faculty for Mathematics and Physics, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia;6. Department of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA;7. Institut J. Stefan, Ljubljana, Slovenia;8. Department of Physics, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy |
| Abstract: | Advanced molecular electronic components remain vital for the next generation of miniaturized integrated circuits. Thus, much research effort has been devoted to the discovery of lossless molecular wires, for which the charge transport rate or conductivity is not attenuated with length in the tunneling regime. Herein, we report the synthesis and electrochemical interrogation of DNA‐like molecular wires. We determine that the rate of electron transfer through these constructs is independent of their length and propose a plausible mechanism to explain our findings. The reported approach holds relevance for the development of high‐performance molecular electronic components and the fundamental study of charge transport phenomena in organic semiconductors. |
| Keywords: | bioinspired materials charge transport electrochemistry molecular wires organic electronics |