Chemistry of Nanomolecular Systems

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XVII

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2. Synthetic Approaches to Nanomolecular Systems

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Dynamic Redox Systems: Toward the Realization of Unimolecular Memory

      • Takanori Suzuki, Hiroki Higuchi, Takashi Tsuji, Jun-ichi Nishida, Yoshiro Yamashita, Tsutomu Miyashi

      Pages 3-24

   3. Photoswitching of Intramolecular Magnetic Interaction Using Photochromic Compounds

      • Kenji Matsuda, Masahiro Irie

      Pages 25-40

   4. Single-Molecule Magnets

      • Keiji Takeda, Kunio Awaga

      Pages 41-57

   5. Atomic Resolution of Porphyrins: Single-Molecule Observations of Porphyrinoid Compounds by Scanning Tunneling Microscopy

      • Ken-ichi Sugiura, Hitoshi Miyasaka, Tomohiko Ishii, Masahiro Yamashita

      Pages 59-72

3. Surface Molecular Systems

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 73-73

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   2. Carboxylates Adsorbed on TiO2 (110)

      • Hiroshi Onishi

      Pages 75-89

   3. Self-Assembled Monolayers for Molecular Nanoelectronics

      • Takao Ishida

      Pages 91-106

   4. Supramolecular Chemistry on Solid Surfaces

      • Takuya Matsumoto, Tomoji Kawai, Takashi Yokoyama

      Pages 107-121

   5. Semiconductor and Molecular-Assembly Nanowires

      • Tomoyuki Akutagawa, Takayoshi Nakamura

      Pages 123-147

   6. Control of Dye Aggregates in Microscopic Polymer Matrices

      • Olaf Karthaus

      Pages 149-161

4. Theory of Nanomolecular Systems

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 163-163

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   2. Theoretical Calculations of Electrical Properties of Nanoscale Systems Under the Influence of Electric Fields and Currents

      • Satoshi Watanabe

      Pages 165-181

   3. Nanodevices for Quantum Computing Using Photons

      • Shigeki Takeuchi

      Pages 183-193

5. Back Matter

   Pages 195-197

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Recently, molecular electronics, especially that utilizing single molecules, has been attracting much attention. This is mainly because the theoretical limit is approaching in the present silicon-based technology, and the development of an alternative process is strongly desired. Single-molecule electronics is aimed at a breakthrough toward the next generation of computing systems. By designing and synthesizing highly functionalized molecules of nanometer size and incorporating these molecules into electrical circuits, we shall obtain much dense and high-speed processors. The concept of single-molecule electronics was first introduced by Aviram and Ratnar in 1978. In the early 1980s, many groups all over the world had started research on molecular electronics. At that time, single-molecule manipulation techniques had not been born, and the research was mainly carried out on molecular films formed by the Langmuir~Blodgett technique, a wet process, and by molecular-beam epitaxy, a dry process. A number of prototypes of switching devices and logic gates were, however, reported in the 1980s. In the early 1990s, scanning probe microscopes became popular and researchers obtained a single-molecule manipulation and evaluation tech­ nique. It became possible to fabricate practical devices using single molecules or small numbers of molecules. Finally, at the end of the last century, an explosion in the research field of single-molecule electronics was witnessed. In addition, studies of "biocomputing" started in the early 1980s and significant progress was achieved in the last century.

• Molecular electronics
• Molecular systems
• Nanaotechnology
• Prove microscope
• STEM
• STM
• Surface science

 Praise for T. Nakamura's Chemistry of Nanomolecular Systems

POLYMERNEWS

"This book describes contemporary efforts to develop nano-molecular systems for future molecular electronics in which single molecules act as basic elements for electrical circuits, it also gives a comprehensive introduction and discussion on the work that is pursued worldwide."

• Research Institute for Electronic Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

  Takayoshi Nakamura

• The Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan

  Takuya Matsumoto

• Institute for Molecular Science, Myodaiji, Okazaki, Japan

  Hirokazu Tada

• Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo, Japan

  Ken-ichi Sugiura

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