title: Creating, varying, and growing single-site molecular contacts.
abstract: The known range of chemisorption bonds forms the toolbox for the design of electrical contacts in molecular electronics devices. Double-bond contacts to technologically relevant materials would be attractive for a number of reasons. They are truly single-site, bonding to a single surface atom. They obviate the need for a thiol linkage, and they may be amenable to further modification through olefin-metathesis methodologies. We report olefin-metathesis methods for establishing, varying, and growing thermally stable double-bond contacts to molybdenum carbide, a conducting material.
authors.affiliation: Département de chimie, Université Laval, Québec, PQ, Canada G1K 7P4.
authors.forename: Mohamed
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Siaj
authors.forename: Peter H
authors.initials: PH
authors.lastname: McBreen