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The first electrical conductivity measurements of monoatomic carbon chains are reported in this study. The chains were obtained by unraveling carbon atoms from graphene ribbons while an electrical current flowed through the ribbon and,…
Tailoring the thermal conductivity of polymers is central to enlarge their applications in the thermal management of flexible integrated circuits. Progress has been made over the past decade by fabricating materials with various…
The B-doped monatomic carbon chain has fine molecular capture ability to H2O and especially to NO2, better than other doped monatomic carbon chains.At 300 K and 1 atm, the capture probability of the B-doped monatomic carbon chain is…
Calculations of the conductance of a carbon nanotube (CNT)-molecule-CNT structure are in agreement with experimental measurements [1]. The features in the transmission correspond directly to the features of the isolated molecular orbitals.…
First-principles calculations show that monatomic strings of carbon have high cohesive energy and axial strength, and exhibit stability even at high temperatures. Due to their flexibility and reactivity, carbon chains are suitable for…
A simple model for evaluating the thermal atomic transfer rates in nanosystems [EPL 94, 40002 (2011)] was developed to predict the chemical reaction rates of nanosystems with small gas molecules. The accuracy of the model was verified by MD…
We propose a scheme for realizing the continuously tunable spectrum based on monatomic carbon chains. By hybrid density functional calculations, we first show that the direct band gap of monatomic carbon chains change continuously from 1.58…
A tunable conductivity has been achieved by controllable substitution of a novel UV light activated electronic conductor. The transparent conducting oxide system H-doped Ca12-xMgxAl14O33 (x = 0; 0.1; 0.3; 0.5; 0.8; 1.0) presents a…
Suspended chains consisting of single noble metal and oxygen atoms have been formed. We provide evidence that oxygen can react with and be incorporated into metallic one-dimensional atomic chains. Oxygen incorporation reinforces the linear…
The interaction of carbon monoxide molecules with atomic-scale platinum nanojunctions is investigated by low temperature mechanically controllable break junction experiments. Combining plateaus' length analysis, two dimensional…
The atomic structure and mechanical properties of the carbyne (monatomic linear chains), containing from 2 to 21 carbon atoms, are theoretically investigated by ab-initio methods. We demonstrate the existence of a stable cumulene-structure…
Using first principles simulations we perform a detailed study of the structural, electronic and transport properties of monoatomic platinum chains, sandwiched between platinum electrodes. First we demonstrate that the most stable atomic…
We demonstrate tuning of the phononic thermal conductance in single molecules with carbon-chain backbones through modifications of terminal groups and halogen substitution of hydrogen atoms. Our simulations focus on intrinsic molecular…
We present a Tight-Binding Molecular Dynamics investigation of the stability, the geometrical and the electronic structure of suspended monatomic transition metal chains. We show that linear and stable monatomic chains are formed at…
We have measured the effect of bonding of a CO molecule on the conductance of Au, Cu, Pt, and Ni atomic contacts at 4.2 K. When CO gas is admitted to the metal nano contacts, a conductance feature appears in the conductance histogram near…
We report a technique which allows self-assembly of conducting nanoparticles into long continuous chains. Transport properties of such chains have been studied at low temperatures. At low bias voltages, the charges are pinned and the chain…
Based on first-principles calculations we revealed fundamental properties of infinite and finite size monatomic chains of carbon atoms in equilibrium and under an applied strain. Distributions of bond lengths and magnetic moments at atomic…
The tip of a low-temperature scanning tunneling microscope is brought into contact with individual Kondo impurities (cobalt atoms) adsorbed on a Cu(100) surface. A smooth transition from the tunneling regime to a point contact with a…
We study the conductance of an interconnect between two graphene leads formed by a single-atom carbon chain. Its dependence on the chemical potential and the number of atoms in the chain is qualitatively different from that in the case of…
The change of conductance of single molecule junctions in response to various external stimuli is the fundamental mechanism for single-molecule electronic devices with multiple functionalities. We propose a concept that the conductance of…