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SUBMITTER: Nishino T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC556290 | biostudies-literature | 2005 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nishino Tomoaki T Ito Takashi T Umezawa Yoshio Y
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20050404 16
A fullerene molecular tip was used to detect electron tunneling from a single porphyrin molecule. Electron tunneling was found to occur locally from an electron-donating moiety of the porphyrin to the fullerene through charge-transfer interaction between them. In addition, electron tunneling within the single fullerene-porphyrin pair exhibited rectifying behavior in which electrons can be driven only at the direction from the porphyrin to the fullerene. It is demonstrated that localized electron ...[more]