The role of van der Waals forces in the performance of molecular diodes

Nisachol Nerngchamnong, Yuan Li, Dongchen Qi, +3

Nature Nanotechnology

Materials ScienceMolecular SolidMolecular DiodesEngineeringNanoelectronics +7

Molecular diodes with rectification ratios exceeding 105 driven by electrostatic interactions

Xiaoping Chen, Max Roemer, Yuan Li, +4

Nature Nanotechnology

Organic Charge-transfer CompoundElectrical EngineeringMolecular DiodesEngineeringElectronic Materials +8

Kinetically Blocked Stable Heptazethrene and Octazethrene: Closed-Shell or Open-Shell in the Ground State?

Yuan Li, Wee-Kuan Heng, Byung Sun Lee, +14

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Organic Material ChemistryGround StateEngineeringOpen-shell SingletPhysics +13

Stable Tetrabenzo-Chichibabin’s Hydrocarbons: Tunable Ground State and Unusual Transition between Their Closed-Shell and Open-Shell Resonance Forms

Zebing Zeng, Young Mo Sung, Nina Bao, +14

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Tunable Ground StateEngineeringTheoretical Inorganic ChemistryOpen-shell Resonance FormsChemistry +14

Controlling the direction of rectification in a molecular diode

Yuan Li, Nisachol Nerngchamnong, Liang Cao, +6

Nature Communications

Highly sensitive and stretchable graphene-silicone rubber composites for strain sensing

Heng Yang, Xuefeng Yao, Zhong Zheng, +4

Composites Science and Technology

Materials ScienceGraphene NanomeshesEngineeringNanomaterialsMechanical Engineering +4

Dibenzoheptazethrene Isomers with Different Biradical Characters: An Exercise of Clar’s Aromatic Sextet Rule in Singlet Biradicaloids

Zhe Sun, Sangsu Lee, Kyu Hyung Park, +13

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Dibenzoheptazethrene IsomersChemical EngineeringEngineeringHeterocyclicDifferent Biradical Characters +13

A carbon nanotube/polymer strain sensor with linear and anti-symmetric piezoresistivity

Gang Yin, Ning Hu, Yoshifumi Karube, +3

Journal of Composite Materials

EngineeringMechanical EngineeringDifferent Piezoresistivity CharacteristicsSensor TechnologyFlexible Sensor +16

Pushing Extended <i>p</i>-Quinodimethanes to the Limit: Stable Tetracyano-oligo(<i>N</i>-annulated perylene)quinodimethanes with Tunable Ground States

Zebing Zeng, Masatoshi Ishida, José L. Zafra, +13

Journal of the American Chemical Society

EngineeringTunable Ground StatesOrganic ChemistryStable Tetracyano-oligoChemistry +14

Transition from direct to inverted charge transport Marcus regions in molecular junctions via molecular orbital gating

Yuan Li, Lejia Wang, Alvar R. Garrigues, +5

Nature Nanotechnology

EngineeringTunneling MicroscopyPhysicsMolecular Orbital GatingMolecular Junctions +8