What is it about?
We show how the interaction of Carbon atomic wires with metal nanoparticles can change completely if you just change the length of the wire by a few atoms. Short wires prefer to give electronic charge to metal (i.e. donor) while long wires take the charge (i.e. acceptor).
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Why is it important?
Understanding how to change the properties by controlling the structure of carbon atomic wires opens to the design of the functional properties. This can be relevant for energy applications such as photovoltaics, catalysis or nanolectronics, molecular electronics and sensing.
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This article is the result of a collaboration between Politecnico di MIlano and ETH Zurich, nice merging between organic chemistry, physics and materials scienec and technology. Experimental data come from a master thesis work of a coauthor and quite a long time was needed to understand the data with the support of computer calculations.
prof. Carlo Spartaco Casari
Politecnico di Milano
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This page is a summary of: Structure modulated charge transfer in carbon atomic wires, Scientific Reports, February 2019, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-38367-9.
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