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Surface Synthesis of Molecular Wire Architectures

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The synthesis of a molecular wire assembly is a key technology to construct molecular architectures toward single-molecular organic electronic devices. Two new methods to fabricate highly organized and assembled molecular wires are described: 1. one-dimensionally assembled polythiophene molecular wires by electrochemical epitaxial polymerization; 2. multilayered graphene nanoribbon assemblies by two-zone chemical vapor deposition.

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This work is supported by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas “Molecular Architectonics: Orchestration of Single Molecules for Novel Functions” (16H00967, 26110513) from the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Sciences and Technology.

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Nakae, T., Sakaguchi, H. (2017). Surface Synthesis of Molecular Wire Architectures. In: Ogawa, T. (eds) Molecular Architectonics. Advances in Atom and Single Molecule Machines. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57096-9_19

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