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Takeoka, Shinji. "Organization of molecular assemblies and ion conduction /." Electronic version of summary, 1991. http://www.wul.waseda.ac.jp/gakui/gaiyo/1668.pdf.
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Hong, Daomin. "Kinetic model of heat conduction in molecular gases." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.286969.
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Rospigliosi, Alessandro. "Improving the conduction of DNA by molecular synthesis." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.613839.
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Stires, John C. "Charge transfer complexes in molecular electronics : approaching metallic conduction /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF formate. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2007. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3250672.
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Macrae, Calum Archibald. "The molecular genetics of conduction disease and dilated cardiomyopathy." Thesis, St George's, University of London, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.408006.
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Wang, Yi Jenny. "Equilibrium molecular dynamics study of heat conduction in octane." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/97858.
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Thesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineering, 2015.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
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Fluids are important components in heat transfer systems. Understanding heat conduction in liquids at the atomic level would allow better design of liquids with specific heat transfer properties. However, heat transfer in molecular chain liquids is a complex interplay between heat transfer within a molecule and between molecules. This thesis studies the contribution of each type of atomic interaction to the bulk heat transfer in liquid octane to further the understanding of thermal transport between and within chain molecules in a liquid. The Green-Kubo formula is used to calculate thermal conductivity of liquid octane from equilibrium molecular dynamics, and the total thermal conductivity is split into effective thermal conductivities for the different types of atomic interactions in the system. It is shown that the short carbon backbone of octane does not dominate thermal transport within the system. Instead, the thermal resistance within a molecule is about the same as the resistance between molecules.
by Yi Jenny Wang.
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Gwan, Jean-Fang. "The molecular mechanism of multi-ion conduction in K+ channels." [S.l.] : [s.n.], 2007. http://deposit.ddb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?idn=983151253.
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Sams, Craig A. "Electronic conduction in elongated molecular dyads containing a constrained bridge." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.407639.
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Rathjens, Franziska Sophie [Verfasser]. "Molecular mechanisms of TBX5-related conduction disorders / Franziska Sophie Rathjens." Göttingen : Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen, 2021. http://d-nb.info/1240161026/34.
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Zachariah, Manesh. "Electronic & ionic conduction & correlated dielectric relaxations in molecular solids." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/404446.
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The study of crystalline materials has played a prominent role in solid state physics, whose basic theories were formulated for crystalline matter. However, disordered materials are more abundant in nature than crystalline ones, and, moreover, many practical applications use materials which are weakly or strongly disordered, such as molecular crystals, glasses, plastic crystals, liquids, polymers, or liquid crystals. In glasses, for example, the arrangement of the constituent atoms or molecules lacks any long-range order. From a fundamental viewpoint, we still lack an understanding of the properties of disordered materials and of the glass transition: understanding the many fascinating issues related with disorder requires in fact the use of concepts that are far from the well-known solid-state concepts associated with periodicity. From an applied perspective, the intense research in disordered solids is driven by the technological importance of these materials in daily life. From an electrical viewpoint, disordered solids can conduct electricity by transport of either electrons or ions. In the first case, disordered materials display lower electrical conductivity than their crystalline counterparts, due to localization of conduction electrons due to disorder, so that electron hopping is the main charge transport mechanism. On the other hand, the same disorder may allow the diffusion of ions through interstitial sites; the ionic conductivity of disordered materials is normally higher than the crystalline counterparts.
This thesis presents an experimental study of the conduction properties and molecular dynamics of molecular solids made of fullerene derivatives (C60Br6, C60(ONa)24) and of dinitrile molecules such as succinonitrile (C2H4(CN)2) and glutaronitrile (C3H6(CN)2). The studied materials display, depending on the case, mainly electronic, protonic, or ionic conduction. The thesis provides insight into the different possible types of charge conduction in organic molecular materials and on related physical processes such as space-charge relaxations.
In C60Br6 we observe n-type electronic conduction below room temperature and a non-trivial phase behavior. The temperature dependence of the dc conductivity of this organic semiconductor is in agreement with the variable-range hopping model. C60(ONa)24 has even richer phase behavior. It is synthesized as a polycrystalline hydrate, and can be obtained as pure material by heating to high temperature. We show that while the pure material is an n-type (electron) semiconductor, exposing it to humid atmosphere leads to a dramatic conductivity enhancement due to charge transport through the hydration layers, which is likely mediated by a proton exchange mechanism as in bulk water and ice. We also show that the dc conductivity of the hydrate is strongly temperature dependent across the dehydration process, and that both pure and hydrated forms display a conductivity-related dynamic process associated with accumulation of electrons at grain boundaries. The presence of water has strong impact on such frequency-dependent charge-accumulation dynamics.
We finally analyze the relaxation dynamics and the ionic conductivity of plastic-crystalline ionic conductors, in particular the plastic cocrystals of succinonitrile with glutaronitrile. In plastic crystals, the molecules occupy lattice sites but undergo free rotational motions about their centers of mass. We find that succinonitrile-glutaronitrile cocrystals are the first ever known plastic crystals to display a perfect correlation between the ion drift and the on-site reorientational dynamics. Doping the cocrystals with Li salts boosts the conductivity but breaks down this perfect correlation. This indicates that the rotation-drift correlation is only valid when charge transport is dominated by self-diffusion of molecular (dinitrile) ions, and that it is a consequence of the correlation between rotational and diffusional time scales.El estudio de los materiales cristalinos juega un papel destacado en la física del estado sólido. Sin embargo, los materiales desordenados son más abundantes en la naturaleza que los cristalinos y, además, muchas de las aplicaciones prácticas utilizan materiales que son débilmente o fuertemente desordenados, como vidrios, líquidos, cristales plásticos, cristales moleculares, polímeros, o cristales líquidos. Desde un punto de vista fundamental, aún carecemos de una comprensión de de los materiales desordenados y de la transición vítrea: la comprensión de las propiedades asociadas desorden requiere el uso de conceptos que se alejan de los aplicables al estado cristalino. Desde una perspectiva aplicada, la investigación en los sólidos desordenados está promovida por la importancia tecnológica de estos materiales en la vida cotidiana. Los sólidos desordenados pueden conducir electricidad por transporte de electrones o de iones. En el primer caso, los materiales desordenados muestran menor conductividad que sus respectivas fases cristalinas, debido a la localización de los electrones de conducción por la existencia de desorden, que da lugar a saltos de electrones como principal mecanismo de transporte de carga. Por otro lado, el mismo desorden puede permitir la difusión de iones a través de intersticios; la conductividad iónica de materiales desordenados es más alta que sus fases homólogas cristalinas. Esta tesis presenta un estudio experimental de la conducción eléctrica y de la dinámica molecular de sólidos moleculares formados por derivados de fullereno (C60Br6, C60(ONa)24) o por moléculas con dos grupos nitrilos (succinonitrila (C2H4(CN)2), glutaronitrila (C3H6 (CN)2)). Estos materiales presentan, según el caso, conducción electrónica, protónica, o iónica. La tesis analiza los diferentes tipos de conducción de carga en materiales moleculares así como los procesos físicos relacionados, tales como las relajaciones de carga espacial. En el material C60Br6 observamos conducción electrónica tipo n y un comportamiento de fase no trivial. La dependencia de la conductividad con la temperatura está de acuerdo con el modelo de salto de rango variable (VRH). El C60(ONa)24 tiene un comportamiento de fase aún más rico. Se sintetiza como un hidrato policristalino, y se puede obtener como material puro por calentamiento. Mientras que el material puro es un semiconductor de tipo n, su exposición a una atmósfera húmeda aumenta la conductividad de forma dramática debido al transporte de carga a través de las capas de hidratación, lo que probablemente se debe a un mecanismo de intercambio de protones como en el agua pura o en el hielo. La conductividad del hidrato depende fuertemente de la temperatura en el proceso de deshidratación. Ambas formas, pura e hidratada, muestran un proceso dinámico asociado a la acumulación de electrones en los límites de grano. La presencia de agua tiene un fuerte impacto en tal proceso. Por último se analizan la dinámica molecular y la conductividad iónica de cristales plásticos, en particular, de las aleaciones moleculares en fase plástica formadas entre la succinonitrila y la glutaronitrila. En las fases plásticas las moléculas ocupan los sitios cristalográficos de la red, pero se encuentran orientacionalmente desordenadas. Se demuestra que las aleaciones succinonitrila-glutaronitrila son los primeros cristales plásticos que se conocen en los que existe una correlación perfecta entre la corriente de iones y la dinámica reorientational de las moléculas en los sitios cristalográficos. El dopaje de las aleaciones con sales de Li aumenta la conductividad pero destruye la correlación anterior, lo que indica que la correlación sólo es válida cuando el transporte de carga está dominado por la difusión de iones moleculares. Tal correlación puede ser consecuencia de una correlación entre las escalas de tiempo de rotación y de difusión.
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Pugh, Nicholas. "Molecular biological investigation of the conduction pathway of the ryanodine receptor." Thesis, Imperial College London, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/8879.
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Henry, Asegun Sekou Famake. "Molecular dynamics analysis of spectral characteristics of phonon heat conduction in silicon." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/36233.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 2006.Includes bibliographical references (p. 91-95).
Due to the technological significance of silicon, its heat conduction mechanisms have been studied extensively. However, there have been some lingering questions surrounding the phonon mean free path and importance of different polarizations. This research investigates phonon transport in bulk crystalline silicon using molecular dynamics and lattice dynamics. The interactions are modeled with the environment dependent interatomic potential (EDIP), which was designed to represent the bulk phases of silicon. Temperature and phonon frequency dependent relaxation times are extracted from the MD simulations and used to generate a detailed picture of phonon transport. It is found that longitudinal acoustic phonons have the highest contribution to thermal conductivity and that the phonon mean free path varies by orders of magnitude with respect to the phonon spectra. For relaxation times, we observe moderate anisotropy and good agreement with the frequency dependence predicted by scattering theories. We also find that phonons with mean free paths between .1 and 10 micron are responsible for 50% of the thermal conduction, while phonons with wavelengths less than 10 nanometers make up 80%.
by Asegun Sekou Famake Henry.
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Tempatarachoke, Pisut Physical Environmental & Mathematical Sciences Australian Defence Force Academy UNSW. "Thermal conduction in the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam model." Awarded by:University of New South Wales - Australian Defence Force Academy. School of Physical, Environmental and Mathematical Sciences, 2005. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/38684.
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We conduct a comprehensive and systematic study of the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam (FPU) model using both equilibrium and non-equilibrium molecular dynamics simulations, with the aim being to explain the cause of the anomalous energy-transport behaviour in the model. In the equilibrium scenario, our motivation stems from the lack of a complete understanding of the effects of initial conditions on the energy dissipation among Fourier modes. We also critically reconsider the ????probes' that had been widely used to quantitatively describe the types of energy sharing in a system, and then decide on a preferred choice to be used in our equilibrium study. We establish, from strong numerical evidence, that there exists a critical energy density of approximately 0:1, above which the energy dissipation among the modes becomes independent of initial conditions and system parameters, and that the full equipartition of mode energy is never attained in the FPU model. We report, for the first time, the violation of particle positions in the FPU model at high energies, where the particles are found to pass through one another. In the non-equilibrium scenario, we critically review the Nos???Se-Hoover algorithm thermostatting method largely used by other works, and identify its weaknesses. We also review some other alternative methods and decide on the most appropriate one to be implemented throughout our work. We confirm the divergence of the thermal conductivity of the FPU model as the chain length increases, and that kfpu [symbol] No.41, in agreement with other works. Our study further shows that there exists an upper limit of the anharmonicity in the FPU model, and that any attempt to increase the strength of this anharmonicity will not succeed. We also introduce elastic collisions into the original FPU model and find that the Modified model (FPUC) still exhibits anomalous thermal conductivity. We conclude that a one-dimensional FPU-type model with ????only' nearest-neighbour interaction, regardless of being soft or hard, does not exhibit a finite thermal conductivity as the system size increases, due to the non-chaotic nature of its microscopic dynamics, the origin of which we are unable to account for. Finally, we briefly outline possible research directions.
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Marrocchelli, Dario. "Studying the conduction mechanism of stabilised zirconias by means of molecular dynamics simulations." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/4631.
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Stabilised zirconias have a remarkable variety of technological and commercial applications, e.g., thermal barrier coatings, gas sensors, solid oxide fuel cells, ceramic knives and even fashion jewelry. This amazing versatility seems to originate from the creation of atomic defects (oxide ion vacancies) in the zirconia crystal. Indeed, these vacancies, and their interactions with other vacancies or cations, dramatically affect the structural, thermal, mechanical and electrical properties of zirconia. This thesis is concerned with the study of the role of the vacancy interactions on the conducting properties of these materials. This study was performed by using realistic, first-principles based molecular dynamics simulations. The first system studied in this thesis is Zr0:5 0:5xY0:5+0:25xNb0:25xO7. This has a fixed number of vacancies across the series but its conductivity changes by almost two orders of magnitude as a function of x. For this reason, Zr0:5 0:5xY0:5+0:25xNb0:25xO7 represents an ideal test-bed for the role of the cation species on the defect interactions and therefore on the ionic conductivity of these materials. Realistic inter-atomic potentials for Zr0:5 0:5xY0:5+0:25xNb0:25xO7 were developed on a purely first-principles basis. The observed trends of decreasing conductivity and increasing disorder with increasing Nb5+ content were successfully reproduced. These trends were traced to the influences of the cation charges and relative sizes and their effect on vacancy ordering by carrying out additional calculations in which, for instance, the charges of the cations were equalised. The effects of cation ordering were considered as well and their influence on the conductivity understood. The second part of this thesis deals with Sc2O3–doped (ScSZ) and Y2O3–doped (YSZ) zirconias. These systems are of great academic and technological interest as they find use in solid oxide fuel cells. Inter-atomic potentials were parametrised and used to predict the structural and conducting properties of these materials, which were found to agree very well with the experimental evidence. The simulations were then used to study the role of the vacancy interactions on the conducting properties of these materials. Two factors were found to influence the ionic conductivity in these materials: cation-vacancy and vacancy-vacancy interactions. The former is responsible for the difference in conductivity observed between YSZ and ScSZ. Vacancies, in fact, prefer to bind to the smaller Zr4+ ions in YSZ whereas there is not a strong preference in the case of ScSZ, since the cations have similar sizes in this case. This effect is observed at temperatures as high as T = 1500 K. Finally, it was found that vacancies tend to order so that they can minimise their mutual interaction and that this ordering tendency is what ultimately is responsible for the observed anomalous decrease of the ionic conductivity with increasing dopant concentration. The consequences of such a behaviour are discussed.
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Henry, Asegun Sekou Famake. "1D-to-3D transition of photon heat conduction in polyethylene using molecular dynamics simulations." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/49755.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 2009.Includes bibliographical references (p. 115-119).
Experiments have demonstrated that the mechanical stretching of bulk polyethylene can increase its thermal conductivity by more than two orders of magnitude, from 0.35 W/mK to over 40W/mK, which is comparable to steel. This strong effect is believed to arise from the increased alignment of the constituent polymer chains, which are thought to have very high thermal conductivity. Although it is well established that bulk polymers have low thermal conductivity, these experiments suggest that cheap, high thermal conductivity polymer materials can be engineered. This type of advancement may provide a much cheaper alternative to the conventional metal-based heat transfer materials that are used today. In order to quantify upper limits on the thermal conductivity of polyethylene, we examine the underlying phonon (lattice wave) transport using molecular dynamics simulations. We first show that the thermal conductivity of individual polyethylene chains is high, and can actually diverge (approach infinity) in some cases. We then discuss how the high thermal conductivity of individual chains is reduced by the presence of additional chains, through van der Waals chain-chain interactions. These intermolecular interactions give rise to both a 2D planar lattice structure and a 3D bulk lattice structure, which allows for the observation of an interesting 1D-to-3D transition in phonon transport.
(cont.) For most crystalline nanostructures, the thermal conductivity decreases with decreasing crystal size from an enhanced boundary scattering of phonons. In the case of polyethylene, however, the intermolecular chain-chain interactions increase phonon-phonon scattering along each chain and actually result in the opposite trend, where the thermal conductivity increases with decreasing crystal size. The results provide important fundamental insight into phonon-phonon interactions and will also aid in the design and structural optimization of high thermal conductivity polymers.
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El, Zein Loubna. "Étude des voies de conduction cardiaque : identification des gènes spécifiquement exprimés et impliqués dans des troubles de conduction." Phd thesis, Université Claude Bernard - Lyon I, 2003. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00521428.
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Notre objectif est d'identifier un gène muté responsable d'une forme familiale de bloc de conduction cardiaque. Cette maladie, à transmission autosomique dominante, a été localisée sur le chromosome 19q13.3 dans un intervalle de 10 cM. L'étude de liaison nous a permis de réduire l'intervalle à 7 cM. Par l'approche de gènes candidats nous avons cherché des mutations dans les parties codantes de 9 gènes, mais aucune anomalie n'a été identifiée. Les données du séquençage du génome humain montrent qu'il y a plus de 100 gènes dans cet intervalle. Nous avons donc entrepris l'approche de la RDA (Representational Difference Analysis) afin de sélectionner les gènes spécifiquement exprimés dans les voies de conduction cardiaque, en supposant que le gène responsable de la maladie est exprimé spécifiquement dans ce tissu. Ce travail nécessite l'extraction spécifique des transcrits des voies de conduction cardiaque (impossible chez l'homme). Nous avons donc choisi de travailler sur le coeur de bovin. Nous avons réalisé toutes les étapes jusqu'à l'obtention des clones. Après séquençage et tri informatique, nous avons obtenus une quarantaine de clones correspondants seulement à une quinzaine de gènes dont la fonction et la localisation chromosomique sur le génome humain est connue. Nous avons vérifié la spécificité tissulaire par RT-PCR et la localisation cellulaire des transcrits spécifiques est testée par l'hybridation In Situ, en cours d'optimisation. En parallèle, nous avons localisé le syndrome de Kartagener lié à l'X en Xq21-q24 chez une famille française à un intervalle de 34 cM, et nous avons exclu deux gènes MID2 et AKAP28 comme gènes candidats.
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Brieuc, Fabien. "Modélisation et simulation des effets quantiques en dynamique moléculaire : application à l'étude de la conduction protonique." Thesis, Université Paris-Saclay (ComUE), 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016SACLC060.
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Cette thèse porte sur l'étude des effets quantiques en dynamique moléculaire (DM). La DM est une méthode numérique qui permet l'étude des propriétés de la matière condensée. Cependant, la méthode étant basée sur la mécanique classique, les effets quantiques associés à la dynamique des noyaux, tels que l'énergie de point zéro ou l'effet tunnel, ne sont pas pris en compte. Ces effets quantiques nucléaires peuvent cependant jouer un rôle majeur, en particulier aux basses températures et/ou dans les systèmes contenant des atomes légers comme l'hydrogène. La dynamique moléculaire par intégrales de chemins (PIMD) est souvent utilisée, dans ce cas, pour tenir compte de la nature quantique des noyaux. Cette approche fournit des résultats quantiques exacts, mais son coût en temps de calcul élevé limite son domaine d'application. La méthode du bain thermique quantique (QTB) a été proposée comme une alternative à la PIMD. L'approche QTB est particulièrement intéressante car son coût en temps de calcul est équivalent à celui de la DM standard permettant ainsi l'étude de systèmes complexes et de plus grande taille.La première partie de cette thèse est consacrée à l'étude de la méthode QTB. Nous avons étudié le comportement de la méthode sur différents systèmes modèles afin d'étudier ses limites. En particulier, le problème du "zero point energy leakage" est étudié en détail et nous montrons que l'augmentation du coefficient de friction du QTB permet de limiter ce problème. Nous avons également développé une combinaison de la méthode QTB avec la méthode PIMD. Cette méthode combinée QTB-PIMD permet de réduire le coût en temps de calcul des simulations PIMD standards.Dans une deuxième partie, nous avons utilisé ces méthodes pour étudier la conduction de l'hydrogène dans des matériaux pérovskites. Nous nous intéressons d'abord à l'impact des effets quantiques sur la diffusion de l'hydrogène dans BaZrO3, un matériau d'électrolyte potentiel pour piles à hydrogène. L'hydrogène étant l'élément le plus léger, un impact important des effets quantiques est attendu. Nous trouvons que les effets quantiques sont effectivement importants à basse température, mais leur impact sur la diffusion reste faible aux températures de fonctionnement typiques des piles à hydrogène. Enfin, nous avons étudié les mécanismes de diffusion de l'hydrogène dans GdBaCo2O5.5. Nous mettons en évidence une diffusion anisotrope dans ce matériau et deux mécanismes principaux de diffusionThis thesis deals with the study of quantum effects in molecular dynamics (MD). MD is a powerful numerical method to investigate the properties of condensed matter systems. However, since the method is based on classical mechanics, quantum effects associated with the dynamics of the nuclei, such as zero-point energy or tunnelling, are not taken into account. These nuclear quantum effects can, however, play a major role in particular at low temperatures and/or in systems containing light atoms such as hydrogen. In these cases, a standard way to account for the quantum nature of the nuclei is to use path integral molecular dynamics (PIMD). This method provides exact quantum results however its high computational cost limits its range of applicability. The quantum thermal bath (QTB) method has been proposed as an alternative to PIMD. The QTB method is particularly appealing because of its computational cost that is equivalent to standard MD thus allowing to study large and complex systems.The first part of this thesis is devoted to the study of the QTB method. We have studied the behavior of the method in selected model systems in order to investigate its limitations. We have focused, in particular, on the zero-point energy leakage problem and found that increasing the friction coefficient of the QTB can significantly limit this problem. We also have developed another way to use the QTB method by combining it with PIMD. This combined QTB-PIMD method allows, in particular, to decrease the computational cost of standard PIMD simulations.In a second part, we have used these methods to study hydrogen conduction in perovskite materials. We have first investigated the impact of quantum effects on the diffusion of hydrogen in BaZrO3, a potential electrolyte material for hydrogen fuel cells. Since hydrogen is the lightest element, we expect quantum effects to have a significant impact on its dynamics. We find that quantum effects are indeed significant at low temperatures although their impact on the diffusion remains low at the typical working temperatures of hydrogen fuel cells. Finally, we have investigated the diffusion mechanisms of hydrogen in GdBaCo2O5.5. We evidence that the diffusion is anisotropic in this material and two main diffusion mechanisms
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Nguyen, Thi-Hong-Minh. "Functional defects and molecular mechanisms of Left Ventricular Noncompaction (LVNC) in Nkx2.5 mutant mice." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016AIXM4039.
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La LVNC est une cardiomyopathie rare, caractérisée par une hypertrabéculation et de profonds replis du ventricule gauche. A ce jour, nous ne savons toujours pas si la LVNC résulte d'un défaut se produisant durant le développement cardiaque et si sa gravité dépend du stade embryonnaire auquel l'arrêt de la compaction se produit. Notre objectif a été d'étudier l'évolution pathologique de la LVNC en caractérisant les défauts fonctionnels et en identifiant les mécanismes moléculaires dans des modèles de souris présentant un développement anormal des trabécules ventriculaires. Pour établir un modèle de LVNC, nous avons généré des souris KO conditionnel pour Nkx2.5 grâce au système Flox/loxP inductible par injection de tamoxifène qui active la recombinaison Cre. Nous avons ainsi supprimé l'allèle Nkx2.5 dans l'oreillette et les cardiomyocytes dérivant des trabécules. Nous avons choisi de sipprimé Nkx2.5 au stade embryonnaire E10 quand le trabécule s'accroît, au stade E14 quand il se compacte, ou juste après la naissance quand le cœur a terminé son processus de compaction. En résumé, nous avons réussi à générer différents modèles de LVNC, dans lesquelles nous avons pu étudier cette pathologie, en supprimant le facteur de transcription Nkx2.5 dans les oreillettes et les cardiomyocytes dérivés des trabécules. Nous avons également confirmé que la sévérité de la LVNC dépend du stade de développement du trabécule auquel le défaut se produit. Peu de publications décrivent à ce jour les mécanismes responsables de l'état inflammatoire observé dans la LVNC, nos résultats sont donc prometteurs pour de futures recherches dans cette voieLVNC is a rare cardiomyopathy, characterized by hypertrabeculation and deep trabecular recesses in the left ventricle. It is still unclear whether LVNC results from a defect occurring during cardiac development. One hypothesis to consider is that the severity of LVNC depends on which embryonic stage the arrest of myocardial compaction occurs. Our aim was to study the pathological evolution of LVNC by characterizing functional defects and identifying molecular mechanisms in mouse models with abnormal ventricular trabeculae development. To establish a LVNC mouse model, we generated specific Nkx2.5 conditional knockout mice to delete Nkx2.5 allele in atria and trabecular derived cardiomyocytes at embryonic stages when trabeculae arise (at around E10), or start to compact (at around E14), or at neonatal stages (after birth) when the heart is almost finish compaction step. After all, we were successful in generating several LVNC mouse models by the conditional deletion of Nkx2.5 transcription factor in atria and trabecular derived cardiomyocytes. These mouse models are suitable for studying LVNC pathology. We also confirmed the hypothesis that the severity of LVNC depends on stages when disturbances in the trabecular development occur. Hypertrabeculation, cardiac conduction defects, decreased ejection fraction, and existence of fibrosis are robustly observed following deletion at E10.5/11.5 meaning that the deletion at early stage of trabecular development causes the most severe pathological phenotype of LVNC. There had been just a few publications showing inflammation in LVNC heart, which could be a very good finding for future researches
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Shen, Kuan-Hsuan. "Modeling ion conduction through salt-doped polymers: Morphology, ion solvation, and ion correlations." The Ohio State University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1595422569403378.
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Leoni, Stefano. "Theoretical and Experimental Investigations on Solid State Reactions: Phase Transition Mechanisms, Ionic Conduction, Domain Formation and Interface Reactivity." Doctoral thesis, Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2012. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-79219.
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In the practice of solid state chemistry, structural phase transitions are fairly common events. Nonetheless, their understanding, in terms of both: A rationalization of the observed changes in symmetry pattern and; An understanding of the mechanisms allowing for a particular transformation, are outstanding problems. The thermodynamic classification of phase transitions distinguishes between first and second order transitions, on the basis of the discontinuous behavior of quantities related to first or second derivatives of the free energy, respectively. Small atomic displacements are typically associated with second order phase transitions, and latent heat changes amount to a few calories per gram only. Additionally, the symmetries of the phases surrounding the transition are typically in the relation of a group and a subgroup. Reconstructive phase transitions, on the contrary, involve breaking of (large) parts of the bond scaffolding of the initial structure, and exhibit drastic changes at the transition point, with large latent heat and hysteresis effects. The corresponding atomic displacements can be in the order of the lattice parameters, and no group-subgroup is found, between the symmetry of the phases. These type of transitions have generally a strong first-order character.
Landau theory accounts for continuous, second-order phase transitions. As a phenomenological theory, it does not establish the existence of a phase transition, which remains an experimental fact. It only bridges microscopic characteristics, like space-group symmetries and structural changes, or phonon softening effects, with measurable macroscopic quantities. Therein, distortions are carried by an order parameter, which fully specifies the form of the analytical variational free energy. The latter is continuous and derivable with respect to temperature, pressure and atomic displacement, at the transition point.
First order, non-continuous phase transitions are still within the scope of Landau theory in the mentioned special case of the existence of a group-to-(isotropic) subgroup relationship. In the majority of cases, however, and for the most interesting phase transitions (for basic and applied research), such a relationship is missing, making the choice of an order parameter less straightforward. Most of the allotropic transformations of the elements, many intermetallic systems, and numerous insulating systems belongs to this class. This class also includes most interesting and fundamental electronic effects, like metallization in perovskites or spinel oxides for example.
This very simple fact of a missing symmetry condition has helped reinforcing the opinion of first-order phase transitions being a world apart, and possibly contributed to discouraging a firm theory to develop, able to account for their transformation mechanisms and the change of physical properties across phase transition. The thermodynamic distinction between first and second order phase transitions is too narrow, as, in case of first order phase transitions, it embraces both weakly discontinuous transition and reconstructive ones, where bonds are being strongly modified. Especially, a mean to qualify the distance between two structures (geometric, with respect to symmetry, a.s.o.), is missing. Clearly, a group-subgroup relationship may, and typically does imply shortest shifting distances, as a tiny atomic displacement can already do for a symmetry lowering. Naively, missing such a relation means no constraints, and apparently no means to conclude at a connection of two structures in general, let alone a full mechanistic analysis.
First order phase transitions proceed by nucleation and subsequent growth of the new phase from the initial one. Different from (second-order) continuous phase transitions, they do imply coexistence of the transforming motifs. The discontinuity in some order parameter between the two phases is driven by lowering of the free energy as the new phase forms. However, close to the transition, the original phase remains metastable, and a fluctuation is needed to cause the formation of the new phase to set in. Such a process responds to thermal changes, and depending on the height of the nucleation barrier, its rate may be slower or faster. In the former case, large deviations from equilibrium may be required to achieve transformation to the stable phase, which means that large hysteresis effects will be observed in the course of transformation.
The intent of this work consists in giving a face to the intermediate configurations appearing in first order phase transitions, in solid-solid reconstructive processes. Apart of a mechanistic elucidation, consisting in answering the question “Which atomic displacements bring structural motif A into structural motif B ?”, another purpose of this work is a rather pedagogical one, that is, showing that first-order phase transitions can be understood in detail, not only in principle but in fact. The core of the examples illustrated in this work is concerned with phase transformations where pressure represents the thermodynamic controlling parameter. Pressure is extensively used in chemical synthesis, as a mean to achieve novel properties, optical or mechanical just to mention a few. Additionally, reports on novel high-pressure polymorphs are regularly appearing. In this sense, pressure is a relevant parameter for approaching fundamental questions in solid state chemistry.
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Mendonça, Mileo Paulo Graziane. "Computational exploration of water adsorption and proton conduction in porous materials." Thesis, Montpellier, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018MONTS142/document.
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L’objectif de la thèse a été de comprendre la dynamique protonique et l'adsorption d'eau dans de nouveaux matériaux poreux identifiés expérimentalement comme des candidats prometteurs pour des applications dans le domaine de la conduction protonique et du transfert de chaleur par adsorption. Dans ce contexte, des simulations à l’échelle électronique (Théorie de la fonctionnelle de la Densité) et atomique (Monte Carlo et Dynamique Moléculaire classique) ont permis (i) d’élucider les mécanismes de conduction protonique assistées par l’eau de deux matériaux hybrides de type MOFs, MIL-163(Zr) et KAUST-7', et d'un phosphate de titane, TiIVTiIV(HPO4)4 à l’origine de leurs performances exceptionnelles et (ii) d’interpréter les comportements d’adsorption de l’eau d’une série de matériaux hybrides CUK-1(Me), MOF-801(Zr) and MIL-100(Fe) qui peuvent être modulées par la nature de leur centre métallique, la création de défauts et l’incorporation de sites de coordination insaturés. Cette connaissance fondamentale devrait permettre de voir émerger de façon plus efficace des matériaux pour les deux applications viséesThe objective of this PhD thesis was to gain insight into the proton dynamics and water adsorption mechanisms in novel porous materials that have been identified experimentally as promising candidates for low temperature proton conduction and adsorption-based heat reallocation-related applications. This was achieved by combining advanced computational tools at the electronic (Density Functional Theory) and atomic (force field_based Monte Carlo and Molecular Dynamics) levels to (i) reveal the water-assisted proton migration pathway through the pores of the hybrid metal organic frameworks MIL-163(Zr) and KAUST-7’and the inorganic phosphonate TiIVTiIV(HPO4)4 materials at the origin of their outstanding proton conduction performances and (ii) explain the water adsorption behaviors of a series of metal organic frameworks CUK-1(Me), MOF-801(Zr) and MIL-100(Fe) that can be tuned by changing the nature of the metal center, creating defects and incorporating coordinatively unsaturated sites. Such a fundamental understanding is expected to pave the way towards a more efficient development of materials for the two explored applications
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Atzori, Matteo. "Anilate-based Functional Molecular Materials with Conducting and Magnetic Properties." Thesis, Angers, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015ANGE0009/document.
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Ce travail de thèse explore la capacité des ligands anilates d’être employés pour la préparation de nouveaux matériaux moléculaires fonctionnels avec des propriétés magnétiques et de conduction électrique. Les anilates, qui sont les dérivés du 2,5-dihydroxy-1,4- benzoquinone substitués sur les positions 3 et 6, ont été sélectionnés comme ligands puisque leurs caractéristiques électroniques et structurales, leurs modalités de coordination et leur capacité de médiation des interactions de super-échange magnétique en font d’excellents ligands pour la préparation de ces matériaux. Plusieurs ligands anilates ont été utilisés pour le design et la préparation d'une nouvelle classe de complexes paramagnétiques octaédriques tris-chélates de formule générale [MIII(X2An)3]3- (MIII = Cr, Fe; X = Cl, Br, I, H, Cl/CN, An = C6O4 2- = anilate). Ces complexes métalliques paramagnétiques ont été complètement caractérisés et utilisés comme briques moléculaires pour la préparation de i) une nouvelle classe de ferriaimants moléculaires, dans laquelle la modification des substituants sur le ligand permet de modifier les interactions entre les centres métalliques, et, par conséquent, les propriétés magnétiques, ii) des conducteurs paramagnétiques moléculaires obtenus par combinaison avec le donneur organique BEDT-TTF, iii) une série de conducteurs moléculaires chiraux obtenus par combinaison du donneur organique TM-BEDT-TTF avec des couches hétéro-bimétalliques anioniques obtenues par association in situ de complexes tris(chloranilate)ferrate(III) et des ions potassium. En outre, ont été synthétisés de nouveaux dérivés anilates avec des propriétés electroactives et de luminescence, afin de démontrer la capacité du motif anilate d’être fonctionnalisé avec différents substituants comme porteurs de propriétés physiques spécifiquesThis work explores the potential of anilate-based ligands in the synthesis of new rational designed functional molecular materials exhibiting improved magnetic and conducting properties. Anilates, namely 3,6-disubstitued 2,5-dihyroxy-1,4- benzoquinones in their dianionic form, have been selected as ligands since their electronic/structural features, coordination modes and ability to mediate magnetic exchange interactions between coordinated metal centers make them potential candidates for the preparation of theabove-mentioned materials. Various anilate derivatives have been used for the preparation of a family of rationally designed tris-chelated octahedral paramagnetic metal complexes of general formula [MIII(X2An)3]3- (MIII = Cr, Fe; X = Cl, Br, I, H, Cl/CN, An = C6O4 2- = anilate). These paramagnetic metal complexes have been thoroughly characterized and used, in turn, as molecular building blocks for the preparation of i) a family of molecule-based magnets, where subtle changes in the nature of the substituents on the anilate moiety were employed as “adjusting screws” in tuning the magnitude of the magnetic interaction between the metals, and thus, the magnetic properties, ii) hybrid paramagnetic molecular conductors in combination with the BEDT-TTF organic donor, iii) a complete series of isostructural chiral molecular conductors obtained by combining the TMBEDT- TTF chiral donor with 2D heterobimetallic anionic layers obtained in situ by the self-assembling of tris (chloranilato)ferrate(III) metal complexes and potassium cations.Moreover, novel anilate derivatives showing electroactive and luminescent properties have been further synthesized, highlighting the versatility of the anilate moiety to be functionalized with suitable substituents carrying selected physical properties
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Bedouret, Laura. "Modélisation théorique et expérimentale du mécanisme de conduction protonique dans un clathrate hydrate ionique." Phd thesis, Université Sciences et Technologies - Bordeaux I, 2013. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00821882.
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Ce travail de thèse présente les résultats obtenus lors de l'étude des mécanismes élémentaires à l'origine de la forte conduction protonique mesurée dans le cas de clathrates hydrates d'acides forts. Une méthodologie combinant diffusion neutronique, résonance magnétique nucléaire et simulation de dynamique moléculaire "ab-initio" a permis de modéliser les différents processus dynamiques impliqués, se produisant sur des temps allant de la nanoseconde à la femtoseconde. Le modèle proposé explique la forte conduction de ces systèmes aqueux par la délocalisation à longue distance de leurs protons résultant d'un mécanisme de type Grotthuss gouverné par la relaxation des molécules aqueuses environnant les protons en excès.
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Souto, Salom Manuel. "Multifunctional Materials based on TTFPTM dyads: towards new Molecular Switches, Conductors and Rectifiers." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/393986.
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Esta Tesis está centrada en el diseño, síntesis y caracterización de nuevos materiales moleculares multifuncionales basados en sistemas Dador-Aceptor (D-A) formados por la unidad dadora de electrones tetratiafulvaleno (TTF) enlazada a la unidad aceptora de electrones el radical policlorotrifenilmetilo (PTM) mediante diferentes puentes -conjugados. Estos compuestos pueden exhibir propiedades físicas muy interesantes como biestabilidad o propiedades ópticas no lineales en solución, conductividad en estado sólido o rectificación cuando son anclados en superficies. Por tanto, estos sistemas podrían encontrar aplicación en el campo de la electrónica molecular como interruptores, conductores o rectificadores.
En la primera parte de esta Tesis, se estudiará el fenómeno de biestabilidad en solución de un sistema D-A basado en un radical PTM conectado a un TTF mediante un puente vinileno. Este sistema puede exhibir un cambio inducido por la temperatura entre dímeros diamagnéticos a temperatura ambiente y monómeros paramagnéticos a alta temperatura. Los dos distintos estados presentan diferentes propiedades ópticas y magnéticas utilizando la temperatura como estímulo externo. Por otra parte, también se presentará el diradical A-D-A compuesto por dos subunidades PTM radicalarias conectadas mediante un puente TTF-vinileno que puede modificar reversiblemente sus propiedades ópticas, magnéticas y electrónicas al oxidarse o reducirse en solución. La modificación de la deslocalización electrónica y del acoplamiento magnético se observa cuando generamos las especies cargadas y los cambios han sido racionalizados mediante cálculos teóricos.
En la segunda parte de la Tesis, se presentará la síntesis y caracterización de distintos derivados TTF--PTM incrementando el número de vinilenos entre las unidades D y A. También se estudiará la transferencia de carga intramolecular y las propiedades ópticas no lineales (NLO) en solución y su dependencia con la estructura electrónica abierta así como con la longitud del puente de cada uno de los compuestos.
En la tercera parte de la Tesis, se estudiará las arquitecturas auto-ensambladas en estado sólido de un nuevo sistema TTF-PTM. La estructura cristalina muestra un ordenamiento supramolecular con una segregación de las unidades dadoras y aceptoras. Además, se estudiará la aparición de conductividad en los cristales del mismo sistema al aumentar la presión. El comportamiento de semiconductor a altas presiones se relacionará con el aumento de interacciones intermoleculares así como con el incremento de la deslocalización de carga.
Finalmente, en la última parte de la Tesis se presentará un nuevo compuesto TTF-PTM que ha sido funcionalizado con un grupo disulfuro para preparar monocapas auto-ensambladas (SAMs) en superficies de oro. Estas SAMs han sido caracterizadas mediante diversas técnicas espectroscópicas para estudiar la estructura electrónica del sistema. Además, se estudiará el transporte de carga a través de las SAMs para evaluar un posible comportamiento de rectificación.This Thesis is focused on the design, synthesis and characterization of new multifunctional molecular materials based on donor-acceptor (D-A) dyads formed by the electron-donor tetrathiafulvalene (TTF) unit linked to the electron-acceptor polychlorotriphenylmethyl (PTM) radical moiety through different -conjugated bridges. These compounds can exhibit interesting physical properties such bistability and nonlinear optical properties in solution, conductivity in the solid state or electrical rectification when anchored on surfaces. Thus, these systems could find potential applications in the field of molecular electronics as switches, conductors or rectifiers. In the first part of the Thesis, we have studied the bistability phenomenon in solution of a D-A dyad based on a PTM radical linked to a TTF moiety through a vinyelene bridge. This system exhibited a temperature-induced switching between diamagnetic dimers at room temperature and paramagnetic monomers at high temperature. The two different states showed different optical and magnetic properties when using the temperature as external input. On the other hand, we have also reported the A-D-A diradical triad based on two PTM radical subunits connected through a TTF-vinylene bridge that can reversibly modify the optical, electronic and magnetic properties by one-electron reduction and oxidation in CH2Cl2 solution. The modification of electron delocalization and magnetic coupling was observed when the charged species were generated and the changes were rationalized by theoretical calculations. In the second part of the Thesis, we have reported the synthesis and characterization of different TTF--PTM dyad derivatives increasing the number of vinylene units between the D and A moieties. We have studied the intramolecular charge transfer and non-linear optical (NLO) properties in solution and their dependence on the open-shell structure as well as on the bridge length for this family of compounds. In the third part of the Thesis, we have studied self-assembled architectures in the solid state of a new D-A dyad based on a PTM radical linked to a TTF moiety through a -phenyl-pyrrole bridge. The crystal structure showed an interesting supramolecular arrangement with segregated donor and acceptor units. Moreover, we reported the appearance of conductivity in single crystals of the same system when increasing the pressure. The semiconducting behavior at high pressures has been attributed to the enhanced intermolecular interactions and charge delocalization due to incorporation of TTF units which force the formation of close packed stacks of molecules. Finally in the last part of the Thesis, we have reported a new TTF-PTM dyad that was functionalized with a disulfide group in order to prepare self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) on gold. These SAMs were fully characterized by different spectroscopic techniques in order to study the electronic structure of the system. Moreover, charge transport measurements through the SAMs were performed in order to evaluate the possible rectification behavior.
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Cafe, Peter F. "Towards reliable contacts of molecular electronic devices to gold electrodes." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/3870.
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SYNOPSIS OF THIS THESIS The aim of this thesis is to more fully understand and explain the binding mechanism of organic molecules to the Au(111) surface and to explore the conduction of such molecules. It consists of five discreet chapters connected to each other by the central theme of “The Single Molecule Device: Conductance and Binding”. There is a deliberate concentration on azine linkers, in particular those with a 1,10-phenanthroline-type bidentate configuration at each end. This linker unit is called a “molecular alligator clip” and is investigated as an alternative to the thiol linker unit more commonly used. Chapter 1 places the work in the broad context of Molecular Electronics and establishes the need for this research. In Chapter 2 the multiple break-junction technique (using a Scanning Tunnelling Microscope or similar device) was used to investigate the conductance of various molecules with azine linkers. A major finding of those experiments is that solvent interactions are a key factor in the conductance signal of particular molecules. Some solvents interfere with the molecule’s interaction with and attachment to the gold electrodes. One indicator of the degree of this interference is the extent of the enhancement or otherwise of the gold quantized conduction peak at 1.0 G0. Below 1.0 G0 a broad range for which the molecule enhances conduction indicates that solvent interactions contribute to a variety of structures which could bridge the electrodes, each with their own specific conductance value. The use of histograms with a Log10 scale for conductance proved useful for observing broad range features. vi Another factor which affects the conductance signal is the geometric alignment of the molecule (or the molecule-solvent structure) to the gold electrode, and the molecular alignment is explored in Chapters 3 for 1,10-phenanthroline (PHEN) and Chapter 4 for thiols. In Chapter 3 STM images, electrochemistry, and Density Functional Theory (DFT) are used to determine 1,10-phenanthroline (PHEN) structures on the Au(111) surface. It is established that PHEN binds in two modes, a physisorbed state and a chemisorbed state. The chemisorbed state is more stable and involves the extraction of gold from the bulk to form adatom-PHEN entities which are highly mobile on the gold surface. Surface pitting is viewed as evidential of the formation of the adatom-molecule entities. DFT calculations in this chapter were performed by Ante Bilic and Jeffery Reimers. The conclusions to Chapter 3 implicate the adatom as a binding mode of thiols to gold and this is explored in Chapter 4 by a timely review of nascent research in the field. The adatom motif is identified as the major binding structure for thiol terminated molecules to gold, using the explanation of surface pitting in Chapter 3 as major evidence and substantiated by emergent literature, both experimental and theoretical. Furthermore, the effect of this binding mode on conductance is explored and structures relevant to the break-junction experiment of Chapter 2 are identified and their conductance values compared. Finally, as a result of researching extensive reports of molecular conductance values, and having attempted the same, a simple method for predicting the conductance of single molecules is presented based upon the tunneling conductance formula.
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Cafe, Peter F. "Towards reliable contacts of molecular electronic devices to gold electrodes." University of Sydney, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/3870.
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PhDSYNOPSIS OF THIS THESIS The aim of this thesis is to more fully understand and explain the binding mechanism of organic molecules to the Au(111) surface and to explore the conduction of such molecules. It consists of five discreet chapters connected to each other by the central theme of “The Single Molecule Device: Conductance and Binding”. There is a deliberate concentration on azine linkers, in particular those with a 1,10-phenanthroline-type bidentate configuration at each end. This linker unit is called a “molecular alligator clip” and is investigated as an alternative to the thiol linker unit more commonly used. Chapter 1 places the work in the broad context of Molecular Electronics and establishes the need for this research. In Chapter 2 the multiple break-junction technique (using a Scanning Tunnelling Microscope or similar device) was used to investigate the conductance of various molecules with azine linkers. A major finding of those experiments is that solvent interactions are a key factor in the conductance signal of particular molecules. Some solvents interfere with the molecule’s interaction with and attachment to the gold electrodes. One indicator of the degree of this interference is the extent of the enhancement or otherwise of the gold quantized conduction peak at 1.0 G0. Below 1.0 G0 a broad range for which the molecule enhances conduction indicates that solvent interactions contribute to a variety of structures which could bridge the electrodes, each with their own specific conductance value. The use of histograms with a Log10 scale for conductance proved useful for observing broad range features. vi Another factor which affects the conductance signal is the geometric alignment of the molecule (or the molecule-solvent structure) to the gold electrode, and the molecular alignment is explored in Chapters 3 for 1,10-phenanthroline (PHEN) and Chapter 4 for thiols. In Chapter 3 STM images, electrochemistry, and Density Functional Theory (DFT) are used to determine 1,10-phenanthroline (PHEN) structures on the Au(111) surface. It is established that PHEN binds in two modes, a physisorbed state and a chemisorbed state. The chemisorbed state is more stable and involves the extraction of gold from the bulk to form adatom-PHEN entities which are highly mobile on the gold surface. Surface pitting is viewed as evidential of the formation of the adatom-molecule entities. DFT calculations in this chapter were performed by Ante Bilic and Jeffery Reimers. The conclusions to Chapter 3 implicate the adatom as a binding mode of thiols to gold and this is explored in Chapter 4 by a timely review of nascent research in the field. The adatom motif is identified as the major binding structure for thiol terminated molecules to gold, using the explanation of surface pitting in Chapter 3 as major evidence and substantiated by emergent literature, both experimental and theoretical. Furthermore, the effect of this binding mode on conductance is explored and structures relevant to the break-junction experiment of Chapter 2 are identified and their conductance values compared. Finally, as a result of researching extensive reports of molecular conductance values, and having attempted the same, a simple method for predicting the conductance of single molecules is presented based upon the tunneling conductance formula.
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Saadat, Abdelkader. "Etude de la mobilite moleculaire du collagene par courants thermostimules : modelisation du vieillissement cutane." Toulouse 3, 1988. http://www.theses.fr/1988TOU30178.
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Mabboux, Pierre-Yves. "Relaxation nucléaire dans les polymères conducteurs : application à l'étude de la conduction microscopique et développements théoriques." Grenoble INPG, 1996. http://www.theses.fr/1996INPG0172.
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Cette etude porte sur les proprietes de conduction des polymeres conducteurs et notamment sur la dynamique des excitations elementaires, polarons, au niveau microscopique. Le mouvement des polarons est etudie localement par l'intermediaire des spins nucleaires fixes #1h disposes le long des chaines polymeres. Observes par resonance magnetique nucleaire, la relaxation nucleaire #1h est proportionnelle a la densite spectrale du mouvement des spins electroniques mobiles (dynamique de spin). Nous tirons des mesures du temps de relaxation t#1 en fonction de la frequence de larmor les coefficients de diffusion des polarons le long des chaines, d#/#/, et entre les chaines, d. En premiere partie de recueil, cette technique a ete mise a profit pour etudier les relations structure/proprietes dans deux familles de polymeres conducteurs, la polyaniline et les poly-(3-alkylthiophenes). Nous avons relie leurs proprietes de conduction, examinees au niveau microscopique par dynamique de spin, au desordre, chimique, structural ou morphologique, qui est varie dans ces deux composes. Dans la deuxieme partie du memoire, nous avons cherche a developper l'outil de dynamique de spin afin de l'adapter a des situations particulieres que l'on peut rencontrer dans les polymeres conducteurs. D'une part, nous avons etudie l'effet de la taille finie des chaines sur la dynamique des spins electroniques. D'autre part, nous avons propose un modele decrivant la relaxation nucleaire spin-reseau dans les solides heterogenes. Celui-ci a ete ensuite mis a profit pour etudier, de maniere quantitative, des resultats obtenus sur un echantillon partiellement protone de polyaniline
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Xu, Degao. "Atomic Force Microscope Conductivity Measurements of Single Ferritin Molecules." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2004. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd645.pdf.
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Johnson, Christopher M. "Investigating the Slow Axonal Transport of Neurofilaments: A Precursor for Optimal Neuronal Signaling." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1452018547.
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PIMENTA, MARCOS ASSUNCAO. "Transitions de phase a haute temperature et conduction ionique dans likso:(4) et composes apparentes." Orléans, 1987. http://www.theses.fr/1987ORLE2045.
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Etude par reflexion ir, diffusion brillouin et la mesure des conductivites electriques sur likso::(4), linaso::(4) et linh::(4)so::(4). Identification et analyse des differentes transitions; mise en evidence d'une relation etroite entre la mobilite cationique et les mouvements de rotationd es groupes sulfate. Observation d'une transition ordre-desordre a 435**(o)c, avec phse intermediaire a surstructure de basse symetrie, dans le cas de likso::(4)
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Constantinidès-Mégret, Colette. "Etude de la structure physique de l'elastine par spectroscopies thermostimulees (aed, cts)." Toulouse 3, 1988. http://www.theses.fr/1988TOU30128.
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PETIT, PIERRE. "Magnetisme et proprietes de conduction des derives cristallins et liquides cristallins de la bisphtalocyanine de lutecium : effet de dimensionnalite." Université Louis Pasteur (Strasbourg) (1971-2008), 1987. http://www.theses.fr/1987STR13163.
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Etude parrpe et par des mesures de la conductivite dc et de la reponse dielectrique ac hyperfrequence. Mise en evidence de la nature radicalaire de type pi du systeme, a l'etat cristallin comme en solution; effet du solvant et de la temperature; observation de sauts de l'electron non apparie d'un macrocycle a l'autre a une frequence voisine de 1 mhz. Mise en evidence de la possibilite de formation de deux systemes cristallins (empilement de chaines ou de plans paralleles) et de leur caractere 1d ou 2d au moyen du modele de richards. La susceptibilite du systeme mesomorphe indique un desordre magnetique comparable a celui de la phase liquide; la conductivite est celle des systemes desordonnes. Les cristaux solvates sont des semiconducteurs moleculaires intrinseques
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Whitehead, Roger James. "Highly conducting molecular crystals." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.329892.
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Fernandez, Pedro. "A candidate and novel gene search to identify the PFHBII-causative gene." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/36913.
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Thesis (PhD)--Stellenbosch University, 2004.Bibliography
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Heart failure due to cardiomyopathy or cardiac conduction disease is a major cause of mortality and morbidity in both developed and developing countries. Although defined as separate clinical entities, inherited forms of cardiomyopathies and cardiac conduction disorders have been identified that present with overlapping clinical features and/or have common molecular aetiologies. The objective of the present study was to identify the molecular cause of progressive familial heart block type II (PFHBII), an inherited cardiac conduction disorder that segregates in a South African Caucasian Afrikaner family (Brink and Torrington, 1977). The availability of family data tracing the segregation of PFHBII meant that linkage analysis could be employed to identify the chromosomal location of the disease-causative gene. Human Genome Project (HGP) databases have provided additional resources to facilitate the identification of positional candidate genes. Clinical examinations were performed on individuals of the PFHBII-affected family, and, where available, clinical records of subjects examined in a previous study by Brink and Torrington (1977) were re-assessed. Retrospective data suggested redefining the classification of PFHBII. Subsequently, linkage analysis was used to test described dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM), hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) and cardiac conduction-causative loci on chromosomes 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 9, 11, 14, 15 and 19 for their involvement in the development of PFHBII. Once a locus was mapped, bioinformatics tools were applied to identify and prioritise positional candidate genes for mutation screening. The retrospective and prospective clinical study redefined PFHBII as a cardiac conduction and DCM-associated disorder and simultaneously allowed more family members to be traced. Fortuitously, candidate loci linkage analysis mapped the PFHBII locus to chromosome 1q32, to a region that overlapped a previously described DCM-associated disorder (CMD1D), by the generation of a maximum pairwise lod score of 3.13 at D1S3753 (theta [θ]=0.0) and a maximum multipoint lod score of 3.7 between D1S3753 and D1S414. However, genetic fine mapping and haplotype analysis placed the PFHBII-causative locus distal to the CMD1D locus, within a 3.9 centimorgan (cM) interval on chromosome 1q32.2-q32.3, telomeric of D1S70 and centromeric of D1S505. Bioinformatics analyses prioritised seven candidate genes for mutation analysis, namely, a gene encoding a potassium channel (KCNH1), an extracellular matrix protein (LAMB3), a protein phosphatase (PPP2R5A), an adapter protein that interacts with a cytoskeletal protein (T3JAM), a putative acyltransferase (KIAA0205) and two genes encoding proteins possibly involved in energy homeostasis (RAMP and VWS59). The PFHBII-causative mutation was not identified, although single sequence variations were identified in four of the seven candidate genes that were screened. Although the molecular aetiology was not established, the present study defined the underlying involvement of DCM in the pathogenesis of PFHBII. The new clinical classification of PFHBII has been published (Fernandez et al., 2004) and should lead to tracing more affected individuals in South Africa or elsewhere. The identification of a novel disease-causative locus may point toward the future identification of a new DCM-associated aetiology, which, in turn, might provide insights towards understanding the associated molecular pathophysiologies of heart failure.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hartversaking as gevolg van kardiomiopatie of kardiale geleidingsiekte is ‘n hoof-oorsaak van mortaliteit and morbiditeit in beide ontwikkelde en ontwikkelende lande. Alhoewel gedefinieer as verskillende kliniese entiteite is oorerflike vorms van kardiomiopatie en kardiale geleidingsstoornisse geïdentifiseer met oorvleuelende kliniese eienskappe en/of molukulêre oorsake. Die doelwit van hierdie studie was om die molukulêre oorsaak van progressiewe familiële hartblok tipe II (PFHBII), ‘n oorerflike kardiale geleidingsstoornis, wat in ‘n Suid-Afrikaanse Kaukasiër familie segregeer (Brink en Torrington, 1977), te identifiseer. Die beskikbaarheid van familie data, beteken dat koppelingsanalise gebruik kan word om die chromosomale posisie van die siekte-veroorsakende geen te identifiseer. Menslike Genoom Projek (MGP) databanke het addisionele hulpbronne beskikbaar gestel om die identifikasie van posisionele kandidaat gene te vergemaklik. Kliniese ondersoeke is uitgevoer op PFHBII-geaffekteerde familielede, en waar beskikbaar is kliniese rekords van persone, wat in ‘n vorige studie deur Brink en Torrington (1977) geassesseer was, herontleed. Retrospektiewe data-analise het die kliniese herdefinisie van PFHBII voorgestel. Daarna is koppelingsanalise gebruik om dilateerde kardiomiopatie (DKM), hipertrofiese kardiomiopatie (HKM) en kardiale geleidingssiekte-veroorsakende loki op chromosoom 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 9, 11, 14, 15 en 19 te ondersoek vir hul moontlike bydrae tot die ontwikkeling van PFHBII. Toe die lokus gekarteer was, is bioinformatiese ondersoeke gebruik om posisionele kandidaat gene te identifiseer en prioritiseer vir mutasie analise. Die retrospektiewe en prospektiewe kliniese ondersoek het PFHBII herdefinieer as ‘n geleidingsstoornis en DKM-verbonde siekte, en terselfde tyd het dit gelei tot die opsporing van nog familielede. Toevallig het kandidaat loki-analise die PFHBII lokus op chromosoom 1q32 gekarteer, na ‘n gebied wat met ‘n voorheen-beskyfde DKM-verbonde stoornis (CMD1D) oorvleuel, met die opwekking van ‘n makisimum paargewyse lod-getal van 3.13 by D1S3753 (theta [θ] = 0.0) en ‘n maksimum multipunt lod-getal van 3.7 tussen D1S3753 en D1S414. Genetiese fynkartering en haplotipe-analise het die PFHBII-veroorsakende lokus afwaards van die CMD1D lokus geplaas, in ‘n 3.9 centimorgan (cM) gebied op chromosoom 1q32.2-q32.3, telomeries van D1S70 en sentromeries van D1S505. Bioinformatiese analise het daarnatoe gelei dat sewe kandidaat gene vir mutasie analise geprioritiseerd is, naamlik, gene wat onderskeidelik ‘n kalium kanaal (KCNH1), ‘n ekstrasellulêre matriksproteïen (LAMB3), ‘n proteïen fosfatase (PPP2R5A), ‘n aansluiter proteïen wat met ‘n sitoskilet proteïen bind (T3JAM), ‘n asieltansferase (KIAA0205) en twee gene moontlik betrokke in energie homeostase (RAMP en VWS59) enkodeer. Die PFHBII-veroorsakende geen is nie geïdentifiseer nie, alhoewel enkele volgorde-wisselings geïdentifiseer is in vier van die sewe geanaliseerde kandidaat gene. Alhowel die molekulêre oorsaak van die siekte nie vasgestel is nie, het die huidige studie die onderliggende betrokkenheid van DKM in die pathogenese van PFHBII gedefinieer. Die nuwe kliniese klassifikasie van PFHBII is gepubiliseer (Fernandez et al., 2004) en sal lei tot die identifisering van nog geaffekteerde persone in Suid Afrika of in ander lande. Die identifikasie van ‘n nuwe siekte-verbonde lokus mag lei tot die toekomstige identifikasie van ‘n nuwe DKM-verbonde genetiese oorsaak wat, opsig self, dalk insig kan gee in die molekulêre patofisiologie van hartversaking.
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Ashoka, Sahadevan Suchithra. "Anilate-based molecular building blocks for metal-organic frameworks and molecular conductors Conducting Anilate-Based Mixed-Valence Fe(II)Fe(III) Coordination Polymer: Small-Polaron Hopping Model for Oxalate-Type Fe(II)Fe(III) 2D Networks Nanosheets of Two-Dimensional Neutral Coordination Polymers Based on Near-Infrared-Emitting Lanthanides and a Chlorocyananilate Ligand." Thesis, Angers, 2019. http://bu.univ-angers.fr/Contact.
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Ce travail porte sur la synthèse et la caractérisation de matériaux moléculaires fonctionnels basés sur la molécule anilate et présentant des propriétés de conductivité, de magnétisme et de luminescence. Les anilates sont des dérivés de la 2,5-dihydroxy-1,4-benzoquinone substitués en positions 3 et 6 par une variété d’éléments (H, F, Cl, Br, I, CN, etc). Parmi eux, le seul composé hétérosubstitué ClCNAn2- a été choisi pour préparer une nouvelle famille de polymères de coordination bidimensionnels (PC 2D) avec des métaux de transition ou des ions lanthanides : i) un PC à valence mixte FeIIFeIII, de formule [TAG][FeIIFeIII(ClCNAn)3], contient pour la première fois le cation triaminoguanidinium dans un réseau de coordination.ii) Des PC basés sur le ligand ClCNAn2- et des ions lanthanides émettant dans le proche infrarouge (YbIII, NdIII, ErIII). Ces composés ont été exfoliés en monocouches, et des études de photoluminescence ont été menées à la fois sur les cristaux et les monocouches. iii) Une famille de PC hétéroleptiques basés sur des ions lanthanides et sur deux types de ligands pontants, le ligand ClCNAn2- et des ligands de type carboxylates (DOBDC et F4-BDC). iv) Une famille de PC basés sur des ions DyIII ont été préparés afin d’étudier leur propriétés magnétiques. v) Finalement, la capacité des ligands anilates à se combiner à des conducteurs moléculaires basés sur le BEDT-TTF a été démontrée à travers la synthèse et l’électrocristallisation de semiconducteurs organiques et de conducteurs magnétiques hybrides avec l’anion [Fe(ClCNAn)3]3-This work reports on the design, synthesis and characterization of novel anilate-based functional molecular materials showing luminescent, magnetic and/or conducting properties. The family of anilate ligands comprises several derivatives obtained by introducing various substituents (H, F, Cl, Br, I, CN, etc.) at the 3 and 6 positions of the common 2,5-dihydroxy-1,4-benzoquinone framework. Among the anilate ligands, the only known heterosubstituted anilate with Cl/CN substituents at the 3,6 positions, ClCNAn2-, have been selected for preparing a novel family of 2D layered coordination polymers (2D CP) with both 3d metal ions and 4f lanthanide ions, through a general and straightforward synthetic strategy. i) Mixed-valence FeIIFeIII 2D CP, formulated as [TAG][FeIIFeIII(ClCNAn)3], containing, the tris(amino)-guanidinium (TAG) cation for the first time in such 2D networks has been synthesized and thoroughly characterized. ii) 2D CPs based on NIR-emitting lanthanides (YbIII, NdIII, ErIII) and the ClCNAn2- ligand, have been prepared and characterized. These layered compounds were exfoliated to nanosheets, by sonication-assisted solution synthesis. Time-resolved photoluminescence studies performed on both the bulk and nanosheets are also highlighted. iii) Novel family of heteroleptic 2D CPs based on NIR-emitting lanthanides and mixed ligands (ClCNAn2- and carboxylate ligands (DOBDC and F4-BDC)), were prepared and characterized. vi) Novel family of 2D CPs based on DyIII and ClCNAn2- were prepared in order to investigate their magnetic properties. v) Furthermore, the ability of anilate ligands to work as components of BEDT-TTF- based molecular conductors have been demonstrated through the synthesis, via electrocrystallization technique. vi) П-d hybrid multifunctional paramagnetic molecular conductors BEDT-TTF and [Fe(ClCNAn)3]3-) were also studied
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Anquetil, Patrick A. T. (Patrick Armand T. ). 1973. "Large contraction conducting polymer molecular actuators." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/30349.
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The development of powerful and efficient artificial muscles that mimic Nature will profoundly affect engineering sciences including robotics and prosthetics, propulsion systems, and microelectromechanical systems (MEMS). Biological systems driven by muscle out-perform human-engineered systems in many key aspects. For example, muscle endows animals with a level of dexterity and speed that has yet to be emulated by even the most complex robotic system to date. Conducting polymers were chosen for research as actuators, based on a review of the relevant properties of all known actuators and active materials. Key features of conducting polymer actuators include low drive voltages (1 - 2 V) and high active strength (10 - 40 MPa) but moderate active strains (2 %). Active strains of 20 %, which human skeletal muscle is capable of, are desirable for applications in life-like robotics, artificial prostheses or medical devices. This thesis focuses on two approaches to create large contraction in conducting polymer actuators. The first strategy utilizes polypyrrole (PPy), a conducting polymer actuator material that contracts and expands based on a bulk ion swelling mechanism. Optimization of the polymer activation environment via room temperature ionic liquids enables PPy actuators to generate large contractions (16.3 % recoverable strain at 2.5 MPa, 21 % max) at slow speeds (0.4 %/s). In addition, cycle life can reach 10⁵ cycles without significant polymer degradation. This thesis presents an in-depth characterization of the behavior of polypyrrole actuators in room temperature 1-butyl-3-methyl imidazolium tetrafluoroborate liquid salt electrolyte.
(cont.) The characterization includes the assessment of passive and electroactive mechanical properties as well as electrical and morphological properties. Using Nature's actin-myosin molecular engine as a source of inspiration, the second approach uses molecular mechanisms to create motion. In this bottom-up approach molecules are rationally designed from the molecular level for specific actuation properties. Such active molecular building blocks include shape changing, load bearing, passively deformable or hinge-like molecular elements. Several novel materials based on contractile molecular design were synthesized and their active properties characterized.
by Patrick A.T. Anquetil.
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Consiglio, Armando. "Molecular dynamics simulations of conducting polymer nanocomposites." Master's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2019. http://amslaurea.unibo.it/18454/.
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Among the conducting polymers, poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene):poly(styrenesulfonate) (PEDOT:PSS) is one of the most used materials in the field of bioelectronics due to its biocompatibility, chemical stability and high electronic as well as ionic charge transport mobilities.
Despite many experimental findings, a microscopic understanding of the materials electronic properties is currently elusive; the main reason is the lack of structural atomistic data of the polymer blend, that is, difficult to obtain because of the disordered and nano-crystalline morphology.
In this thesis work we develop and use Molecular Dynamics based methods to simulate the structure of PEDOT:PSS in presence of an interface, investigating how a surface and some physical quantities (temperature, water content and electric charge on PEDOT oligomers) would introduce order to the evolving structure, and pointing out the differences between interfacial and bulk behaviour. The results obtained by computer simulations are used to estimate experimentally accessible parameters and to compare them with already existing experimental data.
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Elias, Watheq Zako. "Calculation of the electrical conduction of molecules and nanowires." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2014. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/60045/.
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As electronics become more and more miniaturised, there is much interest in increasing knowledge about the electronic and transport properties of nano-systems. In particular, there has been some focus on understanding the physics of nanowires with prescribed properties. Two different groups of systems have been considered that of 1D organic molecular nanowires and 2D interconnects based on graphene. In order to develop a deeper insight of the factors that determine the electronic structure and consequently the electrical transport properties, it is desirable to carry out computer simulation studies of these systems. The work reported in this thesis has focused on studying the porphyrin and DNA molecules as well as investigating the consequences of engineered 2D graphene interconnect. The latter class of systems has included graphene nanoribbons (GNRs), graphene sheets with grain boundaries (GGBs) and graphene nanomeshes (GNMs). The methodology was to use self-consistent extended Hückel theory (SC-EHT) and density functional theory (DFT) in combination with non-equilibrium Green functions (NEGFs) formalism to investigate the electronic and transport properties of these systems. The SC-EHT calculations were performed using an in-house developed C++ code named EHTransport. While the SIESTA package was employed for the DFT. It was found that the SC-EHT approach produced comparable results with that obtained by DFT. This supports the idea that the semi-empirical methods can be as valid as ab-initio approaches. The findings demonstrated that porphyrin, DNA, and graphene based systems are very promising candidates to incorporate in future electronics.
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Dempsey, Phillip James Francis. "Towards proton and electron conducting porphyrin molecular films." Thesis, Brunel University, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.363199.
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Hout, Jamal el. "Etude des mouvements moleculaires dans le polyacetylene par courant thermostimule." Toulouse 3, 1986. http://www.theses.fr/1986TOU30061.
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Ratter, Kitti. "Epitaxial Rhenium, un supraconducteur en limite propre pour des Qbits supraconducteurs." Thesis, Université Grenoble Alpes (ComUE), 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017GREAY074/document.
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L'auteur n'a pas fourni de résumé en françaisThe epitaxial growth condition and the superconducting properties of nanostructured devices made of rhenium (superconducting below T=1.7 K) on sapphire were explored. Epitaxial growth of rhenium thin films onto a single crystal α-Al2O3(001) substrate was realised using molecular beam epitaxy. The cleanness of the substrate was verified using XPS, and the growth of rhenium was monitored using RHEED. The orientations of the two crystals are (0001)Al2O3//(0001)Re and <2110>Al2O3//<0110>Re, which was confirmed using X-ray diffraction. The in-plane misfit between the lattices is -0.43% at room temperature, which allows us to estimate the critical thickness of rhenium to be between 10 nm and 15 nm.For deposition, rhenium was heated using an electron beam. Substrates were heated during growth using either a Joule-heated W filament located behind the sample or electron bombardment. Generally deposition temperatures of 800◦C and 900◦C gave reproducible results.The effect of deposition temperature was studied on samples that had the same thickness but were deposited at different temperatures. Three thickness groups were selected: 25 nm, 50 nm and 100 nm. Every sample was dominated by the (001) epitaxial orientation. Orientations (110), (100), (101) were present, but their intensities were small and decreased with increasing deposition temperature. AFM imaging was used to observe the morphology of the films. The 25 nm thick films were decorated with grains. The diameter of the grains (∼ 50 nm) did not vary significantly on the 25 nm thick sample, however, they became more uniform with increasing deposition temperature, and the surface became smoother. On the 50 nm and 100 nm thick films spirals and holes can be observed. Diameter of spirals on the 50 nm thick film increased from 100 nm to 500 nm when the temperature of the deposition was increased from 800◦C to 900◦C. XRD rocking curves measured on all samples got narrower with increasing deposition temperatures, indicating lower mosaicity of the (001) crystals. High-resolution θ-2θ scans evidenced a disorder in the 50 nm thick film, corresponding to strain values in the range of 0.01. Deposition temperature of 1000◦C lead to the dewetting of a 50 nm thick sample, islands with atomically flat surfaces were formed.The frequently observed spirals are most likely the result of screw dislocations. The origin of the holes that accompany the spirals is a dewetting process that starts when the thickness of the film reaches ~10 nm. We quantified the temperature evolution of the film during growth taking into account emission, reflection and transmission between all surfaces. This thermal model confirmed that the temperature of the film increases as the thickness of the rhenium film grows. The dewetting was studied using Mullins’ theory of thermal grooving. A surface diffusion coefficient of 4E−12 cm2/s was obtained, which is consistent with the observed dimensions of the surface topography.Wires with widths ranging from 100 nm to 3 μm and SQUIDs were fabricated from the rhenium films. Transport measurements confirmed that the lithography process does not affect the superconducting properties of rhenium. Critical temperatures between 1.43 K and 1.96 K were measured. We could correlate the superconducting transition temperature with the topography and the crystallinity of the films. Mean free path of electrons, and the superconducting coherence length were obtained, for two of the films both mean free path and effective coherence length were over 100 nm. These two films were in the clean limit, but the fabricated wires were in the dirty limit.On one film SQUIDs of 1 um diameter with 50 nm and 20 nm wide nanobridges acting as Josephson junctions were fabricated. The SQUIDs were cooled down using a dilution refrigerator. Critical current oscillations were measured. The flux noise values obtained were as low as 2.6E−5 Φ0/Hz1/2
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Musumeci, Chiara. "Supramolecular electronics : from molecular wires to (semi)conducting materials." Phd thesis, Université de Strasbourg, 2014. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-01038014.
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Supramolecular electronics aims to construct and investigate the optoelectronic properties of tailored supramolecular nanoarchitectures. The aim of this thesis is to get control over the organization of organic molecular systems and correlate their structure with the electrical properties, with particular attention at the nanoscale properties. The exploited strategies require a focused molecular design, the balancing of intermolecular and interfacial interactions, a control on the kinetics of the processes and possibly the exploitation of external forces. The presented results showed that understanding the local properties of a material on a nanoscale basis is a huge fundamental challenge to bring solutions to both scientific and technological issues, since in electronic devices the performances are strongly dependent on the order at the supramolecular level.
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Tiu, Brylee David Buada. "Conducting Polymers for Molecular Imprinting and Multi-component Patterning Applications." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1449227860.
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Della, Pia Eduardo Antonio. "Single molecule conduction of engineered cytochrome b562 bonded to metallic electrodes." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2011. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/55082/.
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Measuring single molecule conductance is a fundamental step in order to realise the basic elements of future electronic circuits. This work describes the use of an engineered electron transfer protein, cytochrome 6562 (cyt 6562), as a single molecule junction point between a gold surface and a metallic tip through defined thiol-metal interactions. Two separate cysteine residues were introduced in the cyt b562 amino acid sequence at strategic positions the single-molecule conductivity of the two double cysteine mutants SH-SA and SH-LA was investigated using atomic force microscopy (AFM), scanning tunnelling microscopy (STM), current-volt age (TV) and current-distance (I-z) experiments. The haem binding properties of the cysteine variants were similar to that of the wild-type cyt 6562 confirming that the mutations had not altered the protein's core properties. AFM and STM studies revealed that the SH-SA and SH-LA molecules bound to gold electrode in defined orientations, dictated by the thiol-pair utilised. A strong and stable interaction between the proteins bearing the thiol groups and a Au(lll) surface was achieved, and a single-molecule conductance of 1 nS w is measured in air. In contrast, the unengineered wild-type cyt 6562 bound much less robustly to the gold surface and the measured conductance was at least one order of magnitude less. Crucially, using electrochemical STM (EC-STM) approaches a change in conductance of the cytochrome over different overpotentials was observed, demonstrating that the molecule can act as an electrochemical gate. The protein became most conducting when the substrate potential was set close to the redox potential of the protein. The electrochemical, I-V and I-z STM measurements sug gested a two-step model for electron transfer. This study illustrates the possibility of exploiting a haem binding nrotein directly adsorbed onto a conducting surface as a nanoelectronic element and offers nw perspectives for future biomolecular electronic circuits.
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Cheikh, Ibrahim Ajfane. "Synthèse des matériaux hybrides organiques inorganiques multifonctionnalisés." Thesis, Montpellier 2, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012MON20067/document.
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L'objet de cette thèse a été l'étude de la structuration et de la fonctionnalisation de matériaux hybrides organiques-inorganiques par le procédé sol-gel.La synthèse et la caractérisation de nouvelles membranes à conduction protonique, pour pile à combustible à membrane échangeuse de protons, ont été réalisées dans la première partie. Des membranes hybrides à base de polyéthylène glycol hautement fonctionnalisées par de l'acide sulfonique ont été synthétisées et caractérisées d'un point de vue physicochimique et conductivité protonique. Elles présentent des bonnes propriétés mécaniques, une stabilité chimique suffisante et une conductivité protonique pertinente pour être utilisées comme électrolyte dans les piles à combustible à membrane échangeuse de proton.Dans une seconde partie, nous avons développé des matériaux hybrides mésoporeux et multifonctionnalisés dans les pores en présence de tensioactif de type copolymère block non-ionique (P123). Deux sondes ont été utilisées pour cette étude: la capacité d'échange protonique et le contrôle de la croissance des nanoparticules d'or dans les poresThe aim of this work was focused on the structuration and the functionalization of organic-inorganic hybrid materials by the sol-gel process.The synthesis and characterization of new proton conductive membranes for fuel cell proton exchange membrane (PMFC), was prepared in the first part. Hybrid membranes based on polyethylene glycol highly functionalized with sulfonic acid have been synthesized and characterized through a physicochemical and proton conductivity. They have good mechanical properties, a sufficient chemical stability and a performant proton conductivity to be used as an electrolyte in fuel cell proton exchange membrane.In the second part, we have developed hybrid mesoporous materials with porous multifunctionalized in the presence of surfactant nonionic block copolymer (P123). Two probes were used for this study: the proton exchange capacity and the control of the growth of gold nanoparticles in the pores
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Elmarhoumi, Nader M. "Novel Semi-Conductor Material Systems: Molecular Beam Epitaxial Growth and Characterization." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2013. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc490047/.
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Semi-conductor industry relies heavily on silicon (Si). However, Si is not a direct-band gap semi-conductor. Consequently, Si does not possess great versatility for multi-functional applications in comparison with the direct band-gap III-V semi-conductors such as GaAs. To bridge this gap, what is ideally required is a semi-conductor material system that is based on silicon, but has significantly greater versatility. While sparsely studied, the semi-conducting silicides material systems offer great potential. Thus, I focused on the growth and structural characterization of ruthenium silicide and osmium silicide material systems. I also characterized iron silicon germanide films using extended x-ray absorption fine structure (EXAFS) to reveal phase, semi-conducting behavior, and to calculate nearest neighbor distances. The choice of these silicides material systems was due to their theoretically predicted and/or experimentally reported direct band gaps. However, the challenge was the existence of more than one stable phase/stoichiometric ratio of these materials. In order to possess the greatest control over the growth process, molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) has been employed. Structural and film quality comparisons of as-grown versus annealed films of ruthenium silicide are presented. Structural characterization and film quality of MBE grown ruthenium silicide and osmium silicide films via in situ and ex situ techniques have been done using reflection high energy electron diffraction, scanning tunneling microscopy, atomic force microscopy, cross-sectional scanning electron microscopy, x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, and micro Raman spectroscopy. This is the first attempt, to the best of our knowledge, to grow osmium silicide thin films on Si(100) via the template method and compare it with the regular MBE growth method. The pros and cons of using the MBE template method for osmium silicide growth are discussed, as well as the structural differences of the as-grown versus annealed films. Future perspectives include further studies on other semi-conducting silicides material systems in terms of growth optimization and characterization.
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Jones, Gareth. "Investigation of the electronic conduction of large molecules via semi-empirical electronic structure techniques." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2012. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/42005/.
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In this thesis a new computer code is developed to perform non-equilibrium Green’s function based calculations of electronic transmission, using a Hamiltonian computed from self consistent extended Hückle theory as input. Individual elements of this code are tested to ensure correctness. To evaluate its usefulness, the code is tested on porphyrin based systems against the more traditional density functional theory methods of generating the required Hamiltonian. It is then used on more complex porphyrin systems, and comments are made on the use of porphyrin in molecular electronics. Finally it is used on DNA based systems too large to be dealt with efficiently via density functional theory to provide predictions of the effects of DNA structure on its conductance.
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Timpanaro, Salvatore. "Conductive properties and morphology of conjugated molecular materials studied by local probe techniques." Phd thesis, [S.l. : s.n.], 2004. http://deposit.ddb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?idn=974115991.
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Nageshkar, Vishal Vinayak. "Enhancing the splitting efficiency of water molecules using conductive nanomaterials." Thesis, Wichita State University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10057/10640.
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