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Nanoscale. 2017 Apr 06;9(14):4819-4825. doi: 10.1039/c7nr00571g.

Tuning the Seebeck coefficient of naphthalenediimide by electrochemical gating and doping.

Nanoscale

Qusiy H Al-Galiby, Hatef Sadeghi, David Zsolt Manrique, Colin J Lambert

Affiliations

  1. Department of Physics, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4YB, UK. [email protected] [email protected] and Department of Physics, College of Education, University of Al-Qadisiyah, 58002 Iraq.
  2. Department of Physics, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4YB, UK. [email protected] [email protected].
  3. Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering - Photonics Group, University College London, UK.

PMID: 28352900 DOI: 10.1039/c7nr00571g

Abstract

We investigate the sign and magnitude of the single-molecule Seebeck coefficient of naphthalenediimide (NDI) under the influence of electrochemical gating and doping. The molecule consists of a NDI core with two alkyl chains in the bay-area position, connected to gold electrodes via benzothiophene (DBT) anchor groups. By switching between the neutral, radical and di-anion charge states, we are able to tune the molecular energy levels relative to the Fermi energy of the electrodes. The resulting single-molecule room-temperature Seebeck coefficents of the three charge states are -294.5 μV K

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