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Postdoctoral Researcher Hongliang Chen’s research article entitled Promotion and Suppression of Single-molecule Conductance by Quantum Interference in Macrocyclic Circuits has been published in Matter. Single-molecule electronics is a sub-field of nanoelectronics in which the individual devices are formed from single molecules placed between source and drain electrodes. During the past few years, scientists have demonstrated

Second-sphere coordination, a concept promoted by us in collaboration with David Williams (formerly, Imperial College London) and Howard Colquhoun (formerly, the ICI Corporate Laboratory and latterly, the University of Reading) in the 1980s, describes the formation of adducts betweencrown ethers and coordination complexes through noncovalent bonding interactions. While the properties of the coordination complexes are

A review article entitled From Molecular to Supramolecular Electronics has been published in Nature Review Materials by former Postdoctoral Research Fellow Hongliang Chen. Using individual molecules as conducting bridges for electrons offers opportunities when investigating quantum phenomena that are not readily accessible from experiments involving ensembles of molecules. The probing of single molecules has led,

The long-standing challenge of establishing an active mode of adsorption in the past century has been cracked! The collaborative efforts of our Postdoctoral Fellows and Foresight Fellows Liang Feng and Yunyan Qiu, as well as the molecular-machine theorist R. Dean Astumian from the University of Maine, have led to a research article being first released on October