Our research interests span the entire field of single molecule electronics and spintronics, ranging from the synthesis and characterisation of molecular wires to the study of their fundamental charge transport phenomena in molecular junctions.


NEWS

  • 03/01/19

    Our paper "Unusual Lenght-Dependence of Conductance in Cumulene Molecular Wire" is now online. Read it here on Angewandte Chemie.

  • 08/01/19

    We welcome Xiaohang Qiao as new PhD student in the group. She will focus on novel media for single-molecule electronics and time-dependent measurements of single-entity junctions mechanics.

  • 03/01/19

    Our paper "Charge transfer complexation boosts molecular conductance through Fermi level pinning" is now online. Read it here on Chemical Science.

  • 23/11/18

    Congratulations to Nicolo' for successfully defending his PhD thesis. He will now move to Little Chesterford (UK) to work as a research scientist at Evonetix

  • 01/10/18

    We welcome Jonathan Welsh as new PhD student in the group. He will focus on the synthesis of molecular wires and the study of their molecular conductance, with a focus on quantum interference phenomena.

  • 28/06/18

    Our paper "Bias-driven conductance increase with length in porphyrin tapes" is now online. Read it here on the Journal of the American Chemical Society.

  • 28/06/18

    Our paper "Unconventional Single-Molecule Conductance Behavior for a New Heterocyclic Anchoring Group: Pyrazolyl" is now online. Read it here on the Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters.

  • 28/06/18

    Our paper "Conductance of bare-bones tripodal molecular wires" is now online. Read it here on RSC Advances.

  • 27/06/18

    Our paper "Towards molecular electronic devices based on ‘all-carbon’ wires" is now online. Read it here on Nanoscale.

  • 26/03/18

    Congratulations to David for winning a Post-doctoral Development Award from the University of Liverpool. He will be spending some time in Spain visiting Prof. N. Agraït's laboratory.

  • 15/02/18

    Our conference paper "Charge Transport at a Molecular GaAs Nanoscale Junction" is now online, and will be presented at the forthcoming "Electrochemistry at Nano-Interfaces" Faraday Discussion (Bath, UK, 26 - 28 June 2018). Read it here on Faraday Discussions.

  • 29/01/18

    Our paper "Gateway State-Mediated, Long-Range Tunnelling in Molecular Wires" is now online. Read it here on Nanoscale.

  • 22/01/18

    Our paper "Dual Control of Molecular Conductance through pH and Potential in Single-Molecule Devices" is now online. Read it here on Nano Letters.

  • 22/12/17

    Congratulations to Inco for winning a Royal Society of Chemistry Research Mobility Grant. He will be spending some time in Australia visiting Prof. Paul J. Low's laboratory.

  • 20/12/17

    Our paper "Detecting Mechanochemical Atropisomerization within an STM Break Junction" is now online. Read it here on the Journal of the American Chemical Society.

  • 02/11/17

    Our paper "Side Group-Mediated Mechanical Conductance Switching in Molecular Junctions" is now online. Read it here on Angewandte Chemie (International Edition).

  • 24/10/17

    Our review "Metal / molecule / metal junction studies of organometallic and coordination complexes; what can transition metals do for molecular electronics?" is now online. Read it here on Polyhedron.

  • 24/10/17

    Our paper "Influence of surface coverage on the formation of 4,4’-bipyridinium (viologen) single molecular junctions" is now online. Read it here on Journal of Materials Chemistry C.

  • 06/10/17

    Our paper "Single-Molecule Photocurrent at a Metal−Molecule−Semiconductor Junction" is now online. Read it here on Nano Letters.

  • 27/09/17

    Our review "Single molecule electrochemistry in nanoscale junctions" is now online. Read it here on Current Opinion in Electrochemistry.

  • 01/09/17

    We welcome Mr. Saman Naghibi as new PhD student in the group. He will focus on the electrochemical and spectroscopic characterisation of modified surfaces for single-molecule electronics applications

  • 26/06/17

    Our paper "Insulated molecular wires: Inhibiting orthogonal contacts in metal complex based molecular junctions" is now online. Read it here on Nanoscale.

  • 20/12/16

    Our paper "Single-Molecule Transport at a Rectifying GaAs contact" is now online. Read it here on Nano Letters.

  • 20/12/16

    Our paper "Soft versus hard junction formation for α-terthiophene molecular wires and their charge transfer complexes" is now online. Read it here on the Journal of Chemical Physics.

  • 29/11/16

    Our paper "The Single-Molecule Electrical Conductance of a Rotaxane-Hexayne Supramolecular Assembly" is now online. Read it here on Nanoscale.

  • 29/11/16

    Our paper "Single-Molecule Conductance Studies of Organometallic Complexes Bearing 3-Thienyl Contacting Groups" is now online. Read it here on Chemistry: A European Journal.

  • 21/10/16

    Our paper "Electrochemically grafted single molecule junctions exploiting a chemical protection strategy" is now online. Read it here on Electrochimica Acta.

  • 04/08/16

    Our paper "Low variability of single-molecule conductance assisted by bulky metal–molecule contacts" is now online. Read it here on RSC Advances.

  • 04/08/16

    Our paper "Experimental and Computational Studies of the Single-Molecule Conductance of Ru(II) and Pt(II) trans-Bis(acetylide) Complexes" is now online. Read it here on Organometallics.

  • 25/04/16

    Our conference paper "Evidence for a hopping mechanism in metal | single molecule | metal junctions involving conjugated metal–terpyridyl complexes; potential-dependent conductances of complexes [M(pyterpy)2]2+ (M = Co and Fe; pyterpy = 4'-(pyridin-4-yl)-2,2':6',2''-terpyridine) in ionic liquid" is now online, and will be presented at the forthcoming "Single-Entity Electrochemistry" Faraday Discussion (York, UK, 31 August - 2 September 2016). Read it here on Faraday Discussions.

  • 11/04/16

    Our paper "Single Molecule Conductance of Viologen-Cucurbit[8]uril Host-Guest Complexes" is now online. Read it here on ACS Nano.

  • 26/02/16

    Our paper "Effects of Electrode–Molecule Binding and Junction Geometry on the Single-Molecule Conductance of bis-2,2′:6′,2″-Terpyridine-based Complexes" is now online. Read it here on Inorganic Chemistry.

  • 11/12/15

    Our paper "Solvent dependence of the single molecule conductance of oligoyne-based molecular wires" is now online. Read it here on J. Phys. Chem. C.

  • 21/10/15

    Our paper "Electrochemical single-molecule transistors with optimized gate coupling" in collaboration with the Martin, Hartl, Ulstrup and Low groups is now online. Read it here on JACS.

  • 19/10/15

    Our paper "Gating of single molecule junction conductance by charge transfer complex formation" in collaboration with the Xu and Lambert groups is now online. Read it here on Nanoscale.

  • 01/10/15

    We welcome Mr. Inco Planje as new PhD student in the group. His research will focus the study of metal complexes and their applications in molecular electronics, spintronics and electrocatalysis.

  • 29/07/15

    Congratulations to Andrea Vezzoli for successfully defending his thesis.

  • 21/07/15

    Congratulations to Robert Smith for winning the best presentation prize at Electrochemistry NorthWest 2015, with his talk titled "Porous Carbon Electrodes for Applications in Electroanalysis".

  • 21/07/15

    Our paper on automatic collection and selection of molecular conductance traces in collaboration with the Albrecht and Long groups is now online. Read it here on JACS.

  • 21/07/15

    We welcome Dr. Edmund Leary as new PDRA in the group. He will work on the conductance of phorphirin nanorings and nanowires looking for evidence of quantum interference effects.

  • 26/05/15

    Our paper on resonant transport in single molecule electrical junctions in collaboration with the Palacios group is now online.
    Read it here on Phys. Rev. B.

  • 14/05/15

    Our paper on the synthesis and single-molecule conductance of bimetallic complexes in collaboration with the Beeby and Low groups is now online. Read it here on Inorg. Chem.

  • 04/11/15

    Our paper on the electrochemical characterisation of graphite felts in collaboration with the Davies group and ACAL Energy is now online. Read it here on J. Electroanal. Chem.

  • 26/05/15

    We welcome Mr. Nicolo' Ferri as new PhD student in the group. He will work on the synthesis and characterisation of molecular wires for CT complexes SMC studies.