Molecular junctions active

Left-hand side Sic < 1 kg/mol the activation volume contains several molecular junctions. Right-hand side Sic > 1 kg/mol the volume of one strand is much larger than the activation volume... 

Recently, it has been reported that by incorporation into non-active molecular junctions of Bs with low-lying energy sites, the conduction mechanism can be dominated by electron hopping [32, 47, 84, 85]. 

Fig. 13 Schematic representation of a photo-active molecular junction containing DAE-based SAM sandwiched between a semitransparent Au bottom electrode and an SAM/Hg-drop top electrode. The electrical response of the junction is measured upon irradiation at different wavelengths through the semitransparent bottom electrode...

Second, in designing new molecule-based electronic devices, one of the major goals is the precise control of the current flowing between the terminals. Electrochemical molecular junctions allow for control of the potentials of the electrodes with respect to the redox potential of incorporated redox-active molecules with well-defined, accessible, tunable energy states. These junctions represent unique systems able to predict precisely at which applied potential the current flow will take off. Even though the presence of a liquid electrolyte represents a detriment towards possible applications, they provide the concepts for designing molecular devices that mimic electronic functions and control electrical responses. 

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Electrochemically Gate-Controlled Charge Transport in Redox-Active Molecular Junctions... 

Thiol end-capped oligothiophenes 105a-c were used to form the SAMs between the electrodes. A series of distinct periodic steps in the conductance was observed for all samples at low temperature (<100 K). These features were suggested to originate from vibrational modes in the molecules. A (weakly coupled) gate potential could be applied to the molecular junction, which shifted the step position in the I(V) curves but not the step widths. This observation was taken as an indication that only a single molecule was electrically active in the molecular junction. 

Molecular-based electronic devices used as active components in nanoelectronics were r eeently p roposed [ 1 ]. The b asic function o f su ch d evices i s a t wo-terminal molecular junction that can be electrically switched between high- and low-conductance states. Rational design of the switching molecule can be employed to optimize the switching characteristics because they are mainly dependent on the properties of the molecule. 

An electrochemically assisted jump-to-contact process has also been applied in the development of a modified STM-BJ approach by fhe present author s group [70]. This technique has the advantage that it allows the construction of chemically well-defined, atomic-size contacts, and is possible with both chemically active and/or soft metals. The metal contacts created in this way have been confirmed as having a well-defined structure, suitable for studying the mechanical properties of the nanocontacts [62, 71]. As in the conventional STM-BJ approach, the pair of metal electrodes created after breaking the contact provides the electrodes to construct metal-molecule-metal molecular junctions. These improvements have extended the capability of conventional STM-BJ to create a variety of metal nanocontacts and single-molecule junctions beyond the Au-molecule-Au junctions. 

Cholinesterases (ChEs), polymorphic carboxyles-terases of broad substrate specificity, terminate neurotransmission at cholinergic synapses and neuromuscular junctions (NMJs). Being sensitive to inhibition by organophosphate (OP) poisons, ChEs belong to the serine hydrolases (B type). ChEs share 65% amino acid sequence homology and have similar molecular forms and active centre structures [1]. Substrate and inhibitor specificities classify ChEs into two subtypes ... 

Thermodynamics describes the behaviour of systems in terms of quantities and functions of state, but cannot express these quantities in terms of model concepts and assumptions on the structure of the system, inter-molecular forces, etc. This is also true of the activity coefficients thermodynamics defines these quantities and gives their dependence on the temperature, pressure and composition, but cannot interpret them from the point of view of intermolecular interactions. Every theoretical expression of the activity coefficients as a function of the composition of the solution is necessarily based on extrathermodynamic, mainly statistical concepts. This approach makes it possible to elaborate quantitatively the theory of individual activity coefficients. Their values are of paramount importance, for example, for operational definition of the pH and its potentiometric determination (Section 3.3.2), for potentiometric measurement with ion-selective electrodes (Section 6.3), in general for all the systems where liquid junctions appear (Section 2.5.3), etc. 

There are two pathways by which a drug molecule can cross the epithelial cell the transcellular pathway, which requires the drug to permeate the cell membranes, and the paracellular pathway, in which diffusion occurs through water-filled pores of the tight junctions between the cells. Both the passive and the active transport processes may contribute to the permeability of drugs via the transcellular pathway. These transport pathways are distinctly different, and the molecular properties that influence drug transport by these routes are also different (Fig. 

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