{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["7(33)"],"submitter":["Han Y"],"pubmed_abstract":["Five years ago, rectification of electrical current was found in 4'-bromo-3,4-dicyano-2',5'-dimethoxy-[1,1'-biphenyl]-2,5-dione (<b>1</b>), a hemibiquinone (which we will call either <b>1</b> or HBQ) that has a very small working length (1.1 nm). Monolayers of HBQ on Au<sup>TS</sup> were detected by \"nanodozing\" atomic force microscopy (AFM) and were contacted with two types of top electrodes: either cold Au or eutectic Ga-In. Here, we describe cyclic voltammetry of a self-assembled monolayer (SAM) of HBQ and its orientation on a gold substrate with angle-resolved X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. New measurements of its rectification as a monolayer as a function of bias range and temperature confirm and prove that HBQ is truly the smallest donor-acceptor rectifier and provide some insight"],"journal":["ACS omega"],"pagination":["28790-28796"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC9404471"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"pubmed_title":["Verification and Temperature-Dependent Rectification by HBQ, the Smallest Unimolecular Donor-Acceptor Rectifier."],"pmcid":["PMC9404471"],"pubmed_authors":["Nijhuis CA","Jiang L","Johnson MS","Han Y","Metzger RM","Meany JE","Wang Y","Woski SA"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Verification and Temperature-Dependent Rectification by HBQ, the Smallest Unimolecular Donor-Acceptor Rectifier.","description":"Five years ago, rectification of electrical current was found in 4'-bromo-3,4-dicyano-2',5'-dimethoxy-[1,1'-biphenyl]-2,5-dione (<b>1</b>), a hemibiquinone (which we will call either <b>1</b> or HBQ) that has a very small working length (1.1 nm). Monolayers of HBQ on Au<sup>TS</sup> were detected by \"nanodozing\" atomic force microscopy (AFM) and were contacted with two types of top electrodes: either cold Au or eutectic Ga-In. Here, we describe cyclic voltammetry of a self-assembled monolayer (SAM) of HBQ and its orientation on a gold substrate with angle-resolved X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. New measurements of its rectification as a monolayer as a function of bias range and temperature confirm and prove that HBQ is truly the smallest donor-acceptor rectifier and provide some insight","dates":{"release":"2022-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2022 Aug","modification":"2025-04-18T22:54:15.798Z","creation":"2024-11-21T05:30:37.097Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC9404471","cross_references":{"pubmed":["36033727"],"doi":["10.1021/acsomega.2c01182"]}}