Dipolar molecules inside C-70: an electric field-driven room-temperature single-molecule switch

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Authors	FOROUTANNEJAD Cina ANDRUSHCHENKO Valery STRAKA Michal
Year of publication	2016
Type	Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source	PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS
MU Faculty or unit	Central European Institute of Technology
Citation
Web	http://pubs.rsc.org/-/content/articlehtml/2016/cp/c6cp06986j
Doi	http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C6CP06986J
Field	Physical chemistry and theoretical chemistry
Keywords	Single-molecular switch; electric field; electric field-driven switch
Description	We propose a two-state electric field-driven room-temperature single-molecule switch based on a dipolar molecule enclosed inside ellipsoidal fullerene C70. We show that the two low-energy minima of the molecular dipole inside the C70 cage provide distinguishable molecular states of the system that can be switched by application of an external electric field.
Related projects:	CEITEC - Central European Institute of Technology CERIT Scientific Cloud