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Molecular conductance switch-on of single ruthenium complex molecules

Kyoungja Seo1, Alexander V Konchenko, Junghyun Lee

  • 1National Creative Research Initiative, Center for Smart Molecular Memory, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, 161 Gajeong-dong, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 305-350, Korea.

Journal of the American Chemical Society
|February 7, 2008
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