<h3>Title</h3>
<h3>Design Principles for Molecular Electronic Breadboards</h3>
<p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Abstract</span> :</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The electronic breadboard has played a key role in the development of conventional electronics by enabling assembly of multiple circuits and rapid prototyping of circuit designs. Translating this concept to the molecular scale is critical for developing the field of molecular electronics, which aims to develop single molecules as electronic components in new functional devices with capabilities distinct from semiconductor-based electronics, to its potential. In my talk, I shall present computational framework to design molecular breadboards which can be accessed within an experimental break-junction setup. Our framework addresses the challenges of working with molecules such as their conformational flexibility and their accessibility to microscopic metal electrodes. At present, controlling and combining the electronic properties of multiple circuits within a single-molecule junction remains a challenge. In my talk, I shall discuss strategies to overcome this challenge wherein we examine conductance of three bisterpyridine based molecular breadboards to show that the relative conductance of five single terminal circuits embedded within these scaffolds can be controlled using quantum interference phenomena, the molecule-electrode connection, and external electrochemical gate potential.</p>