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A Mechanical Single-molecule Potentiometer Based on Foldamer

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Molecular potentiometers that can indicate displacement-conductance relationship and predict the molecular conductance are of significant importance towards the real application of molecule-based devices but rarely developed so far. To this end, Li et al. design a single-molecule potentiometer based on ortho-pentaphenylene derivatives. They demonstrated that these pseudoelastic molecules can be stretched and compressed by the mechanical force of the Au electrode along with a dramatically variable conductance by up to two orders of magnitude, demonstrating the great potential as angstrom-scale single-molecule potentiometers. This work has been published in Nature Communications, 2021.

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos.91950116, 11804170) and the Natural Science Foundation of Tianjin, China (Nos.19JCZDJC31000, 19JCJQJC60900).

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  1. Tianjin Key Laboratory of Micro-scale Optical Information Science and Technology, Institute of Modern Optics, Nankai University, Tianjin, 300350, P. R. China

    Zhikai Zhao, Qingling Wang & Dong Xiang

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Zhao, Z., Wang, Q. & Xiang, D. A Mechanical Single-molecule Potentiometer Based on Foldamer. Chem. Res. Chin. Univ. 37, 335–336 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40242-021-1094-6

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