Tunneling and thermoelectric characteristics of N-heterocyclic carbene-based large-area molecular junctions.

Reported herein are tunneling and thermoelectric characteristics of large-area molecular junctions formed with N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC)-based self-assembled monolayers on gold.

• Publication year

  2019

• Venue

  Chemical Communications

• Publication date

  2019-07-23

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Materials Science, Chemistry

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  DOI 10.1039/c9cc01585jPMID 30931445
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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