Electrical switching behavior of a [60]fullerene-based molecular wire encapsulated in a syndiotactic poly(methyl methacrylate) helical cavity

Shengli Qi, Hiroki Iida, Lili Liu, Stephan Irle, Wenping Hu, Eiji Yashima

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Abstract

Exploding peapods? A helical syndiotactic poly(methyl methacrylate) encapsulates C60 molecules within its helical cavity to form a supramolecular peapod-like molecular wire. Sandwich devices using these molecular wires in the active layer exhibit an irreversible electrical switching effect. Calculations predict a violent Coulomb explosion in the peapod C 60 wires during the charge injection process, which would account for the observed irreversible electrical switching.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1049-1053
Number of pages5
JournalAngewandte Chemie - International Edition
Volume52
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 14 2013
Externally publishedYes

Funding

FundersFunder number
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science23750123, 20225006

    Keywords

    • density functional tight-binding theory
    • electrical switching
    • fullerenes
    • nanotubes
    • poly(methyl methacrylate)

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