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How to Tailor Molecular Electronics or Why is Nature Taking the ‘Soft’ Approach?
Author(s) -
Haarer Dietrich
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition in english
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 0570-0833
DOI - 10.1002/anie.198915441
Subject(s) - miniaturization , molecular electronics , electronics , nanotechnology , work (physics) , computer science , data science , electrical engineering , engineering , materials science , physics , molecule , mechanical engineering , quantum mechanics
Editorial Essay: Nature performs “molecular electronics” with astounding efficiency. Now, researchers attempt to duplicate these processes in order to produce, for example, molecular switches. The recent direction of molecular electronics work has been towards ever increasing miniaturization but this is in fact not how nature approaches the problem. The current status of human “molecular electronics” is assessed and compared with nature's highly successful version.