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An Electroactive Photoisomerizable Monolayer‐Electrode: A Command Surface for the Amperometric Transduction of Recorded Optical Signals
Author(s) -
Doron Amihood,
Katz Eugenii,
Portnoy Moshe,
Willner Itamar
Publication year - 1996
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.199615351
Subject(s) - monolayer , amperometry , electrode , transduction (biophysics) , materials science , signal (programming language) , optoelectronics , chemistry , nanotechnology , electrochemistry , computer science , biochemistry , programming language
A phenoxynaphthacenequinone forms a densely packed monolayer together with 1‐tetradecanethiol on a gold electrode. The assembly can be reversibly switched to enable amperometric transduction of an optical signal. In the diagram on the right the current is switched off by irradiation with UV light.