Ivan Pentegov

TL;DR: This work tracks the chemical pathway of an irreversible direct desulfurization reaction of tetracenothiophene adsorbed on the Cu(111) closed-packed surface at the submolecular level and reveals the two elementary steps of this reaction mechanism.

TL;DR: The switching process is shown to be long-ranged, fully reversible, and isomer selective, discriminating between cis and trans diastereomers, enabling maximum control.

TL;DR: Voltage-controlled current traces show a hysteresis characteristic of a bipolar switching behavior of the pentacene analogue anthradithiophene, supported by first-principles calculations.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compare the total and differential conductance of monoatomic contacts consisting of single Pd and cobalt (Co) atoms between Pd electrodes, and show that the Pd contacts show a reduction with increasing bias, which gives rise to a peculiar $\mathrm{\ensuremath{\Lambda}}$-shaped spectrum.

TL;DR: In this article, an in situ-induced direct desulfurization reaction of the thiophene moiety strongly improves the molecular anchoring by forming covalent bonds between molecular carbon and copper surface atoms.