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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 133, Issue 30, Pages 11426-11429Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ja2033926
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- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) [18GS0207, 22245028]
- MEXT
- Kyushu University
- Nanotechnology Support Project
- Japan Science and Technology Cooperation
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [22245028, 11J03881] Funding Source: KAKEN
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The symmetry of a molecule junction has been shown to play a significant role in determining the conductance of the molecule, but the details of how conductance changes with symmetry have heretofore been unknown. Herein, we investigate a naphthalenedithiol single-molecule system in which sulfur atoms from the molecule are anchored to two facing gold electrodes. In the studied system, the highest single-molecule conductance, for a molecule junction of 1,4-symmetry, is 110 times larger than the lowest single-molecule conductance, for a molecule junction of 2,7-symmetry. We demonstrate clearly that the measured dependence of molecule junction symmetry for single-molecule junctions agrees with theoretical predictions.
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