New Molecular Switch Architectures
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Nanotechnology and Applied Nanosciences".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 October 2021) | Viewed by 475
Special Issue Editor
2. IEMN - Central Laboratory of the Institute, CNRS, Cité Scientifique, Avenue Henri Poincaré, CS 60069, 59652 Villeneuve d'Ascq Cedex, France
Interests: modeling in nanotechnology
Special Issue Information
Dear colleagues,
The seminal view of Richard Feynman that "there is plenty room at the bottom" has probably never actually made much sense in terms of understanding the physical phenomena at the nano or meso scale. Some work of the scientific community aims to improve the understanding of physical phenomena in the field of molecular switch and to suggest new material architecture. One of the main scientific objectives is also to develop new functions activated by different optical or chemical stimuli such as memory, sensor or even molecular motor. However, in practice, there is a large number of technological and fundamental obstacles in the way of controlling this opto-molecular transition. The transition from a conductive to a blocked state is governed by thermodynamical and/or thermalization processes linked to the activation barrier of the different states of the molecule. The assembly, the organization or the grafting on a surface of these molecular complex materials lay some structural problems in terms of steric hindrance and free volume. Finally, the various optical, mechanical or electrical characterization at the nanoscale linked with different levels of concepts or scientific modeling trigger a better insight into the architecture and properties of these molecular switch.
Therefore, the aim of this Special Issue is to expand the current knowledge in the field and gather high-quality papers dealing with the architecture and the properties of the molecular switch.
Dr. Christophe Krzeminski
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- nanotechnology
- molecular material
- molecular switch
- non-von Neumann architecture
- optical
- chemical sensor
- molecular motor
- nanometric and optical spectroscopy
- first principles or empirical modeling
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