Suspicion Confirmed: Flat Molecules Better for Conducting Electricity

Columbia research scientist Latha Venkataraman has demonstrated that in creating single-molecule electronic devices, flatter molecules conduct electricity better. That principle has long been suspected, but to demonstrate it definitively required an innovation to existing methods for measuring conductance in nano-scale objects.

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<p><a href="http://www.physorg.com/news75736861.html">Suspicion Confirmed: Flat Molecules Better for Conducting Electricity</a></p> <p>Columbia research scientist Latha Venkataraman has demonstrated that in creating single-molecule electronic devices, flatter molecules conduct electricity better. That principle has long been suspected, but to demonstrate it definitively required an innovation to existing methods for measuring conductance in nano-scale objects.</p>