Electron switch in the double-cage fluorinated fullerene anions, e(-)@C20F18(XH)2C20F18 (X = N, B): new candidates
1School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Institute of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Key Laboratory of Mesoscopic Chemistry of MOE, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, P. R. China.
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics : PCCP
|August 12, 2011
Abstract:
A new type of molecular quantum-dot cellular automata (MQCA) candidates is suggested using the double-cage fluorinated fullerene molecules, e(-)@C(20)F(18)(XH)(2)C(20)F(18) (X = N, B), which have bistable charge configurations that could be used to encode binary information. The electron switch between the two cages leads to the QCA function.
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