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Bias-driven conductance increase with length in porphyrin tapes

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<mark>Journal publication date</mark>12/09/2018
<mark>Journal</mark>Journal of the American Chemical Society
Publication StatusE-pub ahead of print
Early online date12/09/18
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

A key goal in molecular electronics has been to find molecules that facilitate efficient charge transport over long distances. Normally molecular wires become less conductive with increasing length. Here we report a series of fused porphyrin oligomers for which the conductance increases substantially with length by > 10-fold at a bias of 0.7 V. This exceptional behavior can be attributed to the rapid decrease of the HOMO-LUMO gap with the length of fused porphyrins. In contrast, for butadiyne-linked porphyrin oligomers with moderate inter-ring coupling, a normal conductance decrease with length is found for all bias voltages explored (± 1 V), although the attenuation factor (β) decreases from ca. 2 nm-1 at low bias to < 1 nm-1 at 0.9 V, highlighting that β is not an intrinsic molecular property. Further theoretical analysis using density functional theory underlines the role of inter-site coupling and indicates that this large increase in conductance with length at increasing voltages can be generalized to other molecular oligomers.

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This document is the Accepted Manuscript version of a Published Work that appeared in final form in Journal of the American Chemical Society copyright © American Chemical Society after peer review and technical editing by the publisher. To access the final edited and published work see https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jacs.8b06338