title: Novel self-assembled monolayers of dipolar ruthenium(III/II) pentaammine(4,4'-bipyridinium) complexes on ultrathin platinum films as redox molecular switches.
abstract: We report the first example of a reversible redox-molecular switch based on dipolar ruthenium(III/II) pentaammine(4,4'-bipyridinium) complexes self-assembled on an optically transparent metal electrode, whose change in molecular properties can be simply detected by transmission spectroscopy with a conventional spectrophotometer.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche, Università di Catania and INSTM UdR di Catania, I-95125 Catania, Italy. ssortino@mbox.unict.it
authors.forename: Salvatore
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sortino
authors.forename: Salvatore
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Petralia
authors.forename: Sabrina
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Conoci
authors.forename: Santo
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Di Bella