Connecting single conductive polymers to a single functional molecule

Author

Okawa, Yuji ; Mandal, Swapan K. ; Hu, Chunping ; Tateyama, Yoshitaka ; Goedecker, Stefan ; Tsukamoto, Shigeru ; Hasegawa, Tsuyoshi ; Aono, Masakazu

Author_Institution

Int. Center for Mater. Nanoarchitectonics (MANA), Nat. Inst. for Mater. Sci. (NIMS), Tsukuba, Japan

fYear

2010

fDate

17-20 Aug. 2010

Firstpage

940

Lastpage

943

Abstract

We have developed a method using a scanning tunneling microscope (STM) probe tip to control the chain polymerization of diacetylene compounds in a self-ordered layer, thereby creating conjugated polydiacetylene nanowires. When a small amount of phthalocyanine was deposited on a molecular layer of diacetylene compound, we found adsorbed and stabilized phthalocyanine single molecules. The initiation of chain polymerization on the diacetylene molecular row to which the single phthalocyanine molecule was adsorbed was also demonstrated.

Keywords

adsorption; conducting polymers; nanofabrication; nanowires; polymerisation; scanning tunnelling microscopy; adsorption; chain polymerization; conjugated polydiacetylene nanowires; diacetylene compounds; molecular layer; scanning tunneling microscope probe tip; self-ordered layer; single conductive polymers; single functional molecule; single phthalocyanine molecule;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nanotechnology (IEEE-NANO), 2010 10th IEEE Conference on

Conference_Location

Seoul

ISSN

1944-9399

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-7033-4

Electronic_ISBN

1944-9399

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NANO.2010.5697846

Filename

5697846