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<h3>Charge transport at Electrode|Molecule interface: From Molecular Electronics to Energy Research Applications</h3>
<p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Abstract</span> :</strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">The idea of building electronic devices using single molecule as an active component was first proposed by Aviram and Ratner in the early seventies.<sup>1</sup> Indeed, molecules are of great interest for application in electronic devices because of their small size, recognition properties, ability of self-organization, possibility of chemical modification and customisation. Thus, the ability to measure and control charge transport across metal|molecule|metal junction is of considerable fundamental interest and represents a key step towards the development of molecular electronic and spintronics devices.<sup>2-6</sup></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">In addition to the applications in molecular electronics and spintronics research, studying charge or electron transport properties at metal|molecule interfaces under the influence of external stimuli like light, temperature, electrochemical potential or magnetic field will have a variety of applications in other research fields like (i) energy research (for example, solar cells, where the charge or electron transfer at metal|molecule interfaces plays a crucial role in determining the efficiency of the solar cell); (ii) photocatalysis and electrocatalysis (activity of a catalyst depends on the effective charge transport at electrode|catalyst interface); (iii) Sensors (sensitivity and selectivity of a sensor may depend on the effective charge transport at electrode|sensor moiety interface) and etc.<sup>5,7</sup></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">In the first part of my presentation, I will introduce working principle of measurement techniques (i.e STM break junctions (STM-BJ), mechanically controllable break junction (MCBJ) and conducting probe AFM (CP-AFM) techniques) and data analysis procedures used to extract conductance properties of molecular junctions.<sup>2</sup> Using the results from several case studies, I will try to demonstrate a frame work for building structure-property correlations of metal|molecule|metal junctions at single and multi-molecular level.<sup>2-6</sup> In the later part of my presentation, I will discuss the molecular conductance measurement results which will have direct consequences in electrocatalysis and energy researh.<sup>3,5,7</sup></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span lang="EN-US">References</span></span><span lang="EN-US">:</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">1. Aviram, A.,Ratner, M., Chem. Phys. Lett. 1974, 29, 277.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">2. Kaliginedi et al., Journal of American chemical society. 2012, 134, 5262–5275.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">3. Rudnev, A., Kaliginedi et al., Science Advances. 2017, 3, e1602297.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">4. Seth, C., Kaliginedi et al., Chemical Science. 2017, 8, 1576-1591.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">5. Atesci, H., Kaliginedi et al., Nature Nanotechnology. 2018, 13, 117.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">6. Kaliginedi et al., PCCP. 2015, 16, 23529.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;" lang="EN-US">7. Kaliginedi et al., Nanoscale. 2015, 7, 17685.</span></p>