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Supramolecular chemistry from molecular information towards self-organization and complex matter. Rep. Prog. Phys., 2004, 67, 249-265. 

While the progress on nanomanipulation is remarkable, it is clear that making large quantities of functional multi-nanometre-scale materials is not practical on an atom-by-atom or molecule-by-molecule fashion in the immediate future. As a result, we turn our attention to directed or templated chemical methods to prepare nanoscale features and, in particular, highly complex three-dimensional nanoscale devices.  

One of the key goals in nanochemistry is the creation of devices that can function on the nanometre scale. The benefits that accrue with such miniaturisation include increased component density, lower costs and faster speeds, with longterm goals in molecular computing. A device can be described as an object that is invented and has a purpose. However, what is a device on the supramolecular level Thus far, we have considered the definition of supramolecular chemistry in terms of non-covalent interactions. However, we can consider a supramolecular device to be a system made up of linked molecular components with identifiable properties that are intrinsic to each component. The interaction energy between 

The most common and extensively used moieties for photochemical devices are late-transition-metal centres (such as Ru(ii), Os(ii), Ir(iii) and Re(i)) with aromatic nitrogen donor ligands coordinated to the metal, for example, 2,2 -bipyridine (5.4, bpy), 1,10-phenanthroline (5.5, phen) and 2,2 6, 2 -terpyridine (5.6, terpy) complexes. These types of ligand can absorb and re-emit light due to accessible TT-TT transitions. Metal-to-ligand charge-transfer (MLCT) can also occur. 

Complexes such as [Ru(bpy)3] + and [Ru(phen)3] + have long-lived phosphorescent states with lifetimes in the range of 10 -10 ns in solution. The terpyridyl analogues are less emissive but, unlike the bpy and phen complexes, are achiral and so do not suffer from complications due to diastereoisomer formation. 

Todhunter, The Elements of Euclid, Macmillan London, 1880 (from the original Greek). 

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Fatty Acid Transporters. Figure 2 Quencher-based real-time fatty acid uptake assay with a fluorescently labeled FFA analogue (C1-Bodipy-C12). Predominantly protein-mediated fatty acid uptake by 3T3-L1 adipocytes (diamonds) was compared with diffusion-driven uptake by fibroblasts (squares) using the QBT Fatty Acid Uptake reagent (Molecular Devices Corp., CA, USA), which contains C1-Bodipy-C12 as substrate in conjunction with a cell impermeable quencher. Uptake kinetics was recorded using a Gemini fluorescence plate reader. Error bars indicate the standard deviations from 12 independent wells. RFU relative fluorescence units. 

Sugiura K-I, Matsumoto T, Tada H, Nakamura T (2003) In Sugima K-I, Matsumoto T, Tada H, Nakamura T (eds) Chemistry of nanomolecular systems toward the realization of molecular devices. Springer, Berlin Heidelberg New York... 

Yokota, K., Taniguchi, M. and Kawai, T. (2007) Control of the Electrode-Molecule Interface for Molecular Devices. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 129, 5818-5819. 

Magnetic field effects on the photoelectrochemical reactions of photosensitive electrodes are very important for practical applications of the MFEs in controlling the photoelectronic functions of molecular devices. Previously, we have examined MFEs on the photoelectrochemical reactions of photosensitive electrodes modified with zinc-tetraphenylporphyrin-viologen linked compounds [27, 28] and semiconductor nanoparticles [29, 30[. However, MEEs on the photoelectrochemical reactions of photosensitive electrodes modified with nanoclusters have not yet been reported. 

Fig. 3. Comparison between IP-One kit versus calcium mobilization assay (384-well format). Human embryonic kidney (HEK) 293 cells expressing a chemokine receptor were evaluated on HTRF IP-One kit (CisBio, Bedford, MA) and fluroescent imaging plate reader (FLIPR) with Calcium 3 kit (Molecular Devices, Mountain View, CA).

The ability to switch a molecular unit on and off is a key component of an efficient molecular device, since it allows modulation of the physical response of such a device by external physical or chemical triggers. A molecular device, based on a trinuclear metal complex, shown in Figure 59, functions as an electroswitchable-photoinduced-electron-transfer (ESPET) device.616 Electrochemical switching of the redox state of a spacer intervening between a donor-acceptor pair can dictate the type of the observable charge separation and the lifetime of the resulting ion pair.616... 

Lehn JM. 1988. Supramolecular chemistry—Scope and perspectives molecules, supermolecules, and molecular devices. Angewandte Chemie—International Edition in English 27(1) 89-112. 

Oguz U, Akkaya EU (1997) One-pot synthesis of a red-fluorescent chemosensor from an azacrown, phloroglucinol and squaric acid a simple in-solution construction of a functional molecular device. Tetrahedron Lett 38 4509 1512... 

One of the advances in the field of PET is the design of molecular devices, in which D and A pairs are ingeniously linked by covalent bridges (B) to form D-B-A dyads. Electron transfers between D and A across B in a controlled manner may thus display useful functionalities, such as molecular rectifiers [25], switches [26], biosensors [27], photovoltaic cells [28], and nonlinear optical materials [29]. Spacers that have been utilized are versatile, including small molecules, such as cyclohexane [30], adamantane [31], bicyclo[2.2.2]octane [32], steroids [33], and oligomers of... 

Towards the Realization of Molecular Devices Editors T. Nakamura,... 

Screening Plates HE Microplates 96 Black PS (Molecular Devices). 

In addition to the immunochromatographic assays, another system used by the Allies during Desert Storm for the detection of biological warfare agents was the Light Addressable Potentiometric System (LAPS) produced by Molecular Devices (Sunnyvale, CA)19. The LAPS detected toxins and... 

Learn how to design and produce new substances, materials, and molecular devices with properties that can be predicted, tailored, and tuned before production. This ability would greatly streamline the search for new useful substances, avoiding consider-... 

In this section, we look more closely at what effect the chalcogen atom has on the properties of the molecular conductors we describe. We do not attempt to review exhaustively all the chalcogen-containing components in electroactive systems, to do so would be a colossal task. Instead, carefully chosen examples and studies illustrate how chalcogen chemistry is used in the design and manipulation of electroactive materials, and ultimately how it effects suitability for molecular device applications. 

Fig. 1 Sketches of break junction-type test beds for molecular transport. On the far left is a tunneling electron microscopy (TEM) image of the actual metallic structure in (mechanical) break junctions from the nanoelectronics group at University of Basel. The sketches in the middle (Reprinted by permission from Macmillan Publishers Ltd Nature Nanotechnology 4, 230-234 (2009), copyright 2009) and right (reproduced from Molecular Devices, A.M. Moore, D.L. Allara, and P.S. Weiss, in NNIN Nanotechnology Open Textbook (2007) with permission from the authors) show possible geometries for molecules between two gold electrodes, and (on the upper right) a molecule that has only one end attached across the junction...

Joachim C, Gimzewski JK, Aviram A (2000) Electronics using hybrid-molecular and mono-molecular devices. Nature 408(6812) 541-548... 

Kronemeijer AJ, Akkerman HB, Kudemac T, van Wees BJ, Feringa BL, Blom PWM, de Boer B (2008) Reversible conductance switching in molecular devices. Adv Mater 20(8) 1467-1473... 

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