Transport Modulation Through Electronegativity Gating in Multiple Nitrogenous Circuits
Ping Duan
State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005 P. R. China
Search for more papers by this authorYaping Wang
State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005 P. R. China
Search for more papers by this authorLichuan Chen
State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005 P. R. China
Search for more papers by this authorKai Qu
State Key Laboratory of Structural Chemistry, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fuzhou, 350002 P. R. China
School of Physical Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, 201210 P. R. China
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049 P. R. China
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Junyang Liu
State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005 P. R. China
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Qian-Chong Zhang
State Key Laboratory of Structural Chemistry, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fuzhou, 350002 P. R. China
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Zhong-Ning Chen
State Key Laboratory of Structural Chemistry, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fuzhou, 350002 P. R. China
School of Physical Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, 201210 P. R. China
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Wenjing Hong
State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005 P. R. China
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Search for more papers by this authorPing Duan
State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005 P. R. China
Search for more papers by this authorYaping Wang
State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005 P. R. China
Search for more papers by this authorLichuan Chen
State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005 P. R. China
Search for more papers by this authorKai Qu
State Key Laboratory of Structural Chemistry, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fuzhou, 350002 P. R. China
School of Physical Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, 201210 P. R. China
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049 P. R. China
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Junyang Liu
State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005 P. R. China
E-mail: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]
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Qian-Chong Zhang
State Key Laboratory of Structural Chemistry, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fuzhou, 350002 P. R. China
E-mail: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]
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Zhong-Ning Chen
State Key Laboratory of Structural Chemistry, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fuzhou, 350002 P. R. China
School of Physical Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, 201210 P. R. China
E-mail: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]
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Wenjing Hong
State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005 P. R. China
E-mail: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]
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Investigating the correlations of electron transport between multiple channels shows vital promises for the design of molecule-scale circuits with logic operations. To control the electron transport through multiple channels, the modulation of electronegativity shows an effective frontier orbit control method with high universality to explore the interactions between transport channels. Here, two series of compounds with a single nitrogenous conductive channel (Sg) and dual-channels (Db) are designed to explore the influence of electronegativity on electron tunneling transport. Single-molecule conductance measured via the scanning tunneling microscope break junction technique (STM-BJ) reveals that the conductance of Db series is significantly suppressed as the electronegativity of nitrogen becomes negative, while the suppression on Sg is less obvious. Theoretical calculations confirm that the effect of electronegativity extends to a dispersive range of molecular frameworks owing to the delocalized orbital distribution from the dual-channel structure, resulting in a more significant conductance suppression effect than that on the single-channel. This study provides the experimental and theoretical potentials of electronegativity gating for molecular circuits.
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