Charge and exciton transport through molecular wires. (2011)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Laurens D.A. Siebbeles and Ferdinand C. Grozema.
• Other Names: Siebbeles, Laurens D. A; Grozema, Ferdinand Cornelius
• Contents: INTRODUCTION: MOLECULAR ELECTRONICS AND MOLECULAR WIRES; Introduction; Single-Molecule Devices; Transport of Charges and Excitons in Molecular Wires; ; PART I: Molecules between Electrodes; ; QUANTUM INTERFERENCE IN ACYCLIC MOLECULES; Introduction; Theoretical Methods; Interference in Acyclic Cross-Conjugated Molecules; Understanding Interference in Model Systems; Using Interference for Devices; Probing the Limits of Calculations: Important Real-World Phenomena; Conclusions; ; HOPPING TRANSPORT IN LONG CONJUGATED MOLECULAR WIRES CONNECTED TO METALS; Introduction; Charge Transport Mechanisms; Oligophenylene Imine Molecular Wires: A Flexible System for Examining the Physical Organic Chemistry of Hopping Conduction in Molecules; Outlook: Probing the Physical Organic Chemistry of Hopping Conduction; ; PART II: Donor-Bridge-Acceptor Systems; ; TUNNELING THROUGH CONJUGATED BRIDGES IN DESIGNED DONOR-BRIDGE-ACCEPTOR MOLECULES; Introduction; Through-Bond Electronic Coupling in Pi-Conjugated Bridges; Conclusions; ; BASE PAIR SEQUENCE AND HOLE TRANSFER THROUGH DNA: RATIONAL DESIGN OF MOLECULAR WIRES; Introduction; Spectral Signatures of Charge Transfer; Charge Injection into A-Tracts; Crossover from Superexchange to Hopping in Sa--An--Sd; Symmetry Breaking in Sa--An--Sa; Influence of a Single G on Charge Transport; Molecular Wire Behavior in Sa--A2-3G1-7--SD; Charge Transfer through Alternating Sequences; Theoretical Descriptions of Charge Transfer through DNA; Conclusion; ; CHARGE TRANSPORT THROUGH MOLECULES: ORGANIC NANOCABLES FOR MOLECULAR ELECTRONICS; Introduction; Theoretical Concepts; Charge Transport along Pi-Conjugated Bridges in C60-Containing Donor-Bridge-Acceptor Conjugates; Conclusion; ; PART III: Charge Transport through Wires in Solution; ; ELECTRON AND EXCITON TRANSPORT TO APPENDED TRAPS; Introduction; Experimental Methods to Investigate Transport to Appended Traps; Results on Transport to Traps; Comparison and Perspectives; ; ELECTRON LATTICE DYNAMICS AS A METHOD TO STUDY CHARGE TRANSPORT IN CONJUGATED POLYMERS; Introduction; Methodology; Results; Summary; ; CHARGE TRANSPORT ALONG ISOLATED CONJUGATED MOLECULAR WIRES MEASURED BY PULSE RADIOLYSIS TIME-RESOLVED MICROWAVE CONDUCTIVITY; Introduction; Pulse-Radiolysis Time-Resolved Microwave Conductivity; Mechanisms for Charge Transport along Conjugated Chains; The Meaning of the Mobility at Microwave Frequencies; Charge Transport along Ladder-Type PPP; Effect of Torsional Disorder on the Mobility; Effect of Chain Coiling on the Mobility of Charges; Supramolecular Control of Charge Transport along Molecular Wires; Summary and Outlook; ; PART IV: Exciton Transport through Conjugated Molecular Wires; ; STRUCTURE PROPERTY RELATIONSHIPS FOR EXCITON TRANSFER IN CONJUGATED POLYMERS; Introduction; Signal Gain in Aplifying Fluorescent Polymers; Directing Energy Transfer within CPs: Dimensionality and Molecular Design; Lifetime Modulation; Conformational Dependence on Energy Migration: Conjugated Polymer-Liquid Crystal Solutions; Conclusions;
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Wiley-VCH
• Publication Date: 2011
• Extent: 1 online resource (334 pages)
• Subjects: 621.381; Nanowires; Charge transfer devices (Electronics); Exciton theory
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783527633098
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