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"Doping" of Polyyne with an Organometallic Fragment Leads to Highly Conductive Metallapolyyne Molecular Wire
Yuya Tanaka1, Yuya Kato1, Tomofumi Tada2
1Laboratory for Chemistry and Life Science, Institute of Innovative Research , Tokyo Institute of Technology , Yokohama 226-8503 , Japan.
Abstract:
Exploration of highly conductive molecules is essential to achieve single-molecule electronic devices. The present paper describes the results on single-molecule conductance study of polyyne wires doped with the organometallic Ru(dppe)2 fragment, X-(C≡C) n-Ru(dppe)2-(C≡C) n-X. The metallapolyyne wires end-capped with the gold fragments (X = AuL) are subjected to single-molecule conductance measurements with the STM break junction technique, which reveal the high conductance (10-3-10-2 G0; n = 2-4) with the low attenuation factor (0.25 Å-1) and the low contact resistance (33 kΩ). A unique "'doping'" effect of Ru(dppe)2 fragment was found to lead to the high performance as suggested by the hybrid density functional theory-nonequilibrium green function calculation.
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