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Inside Cover: Electrical Switching Behavior of a [60]Fullerene‐Based Molecular Wire Encapsulated in a Syndiotactic Poly(methyl methacrylate) Helical Cavity (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 3/2013)
Author(s) -
Qi Shengli,
Iida Hiroki,
Liu Lili,
Irle Stephan,
Hu Wenping,
Yashima Eiji
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.201209492
Subject(s) - tacticity , methyl methacrylate , materials science , poly(methyl methacrylate) , supramolecular chemistry , fullerene , molecule , methacrylate , polymer chemistry , nanotechnology , composite material , polymerization , chemistry , polymer , organic chemistry
A helical syndiotactic poly(methyl methacrylate) (st‐PMMA) encapsulates C 60 molecules within its helical cavity to form a supramolecular peapod‐like molecular wire. In their Communication on page 1049 ff., S. Qi, S. Irle, E. Yashima, and co‐workers report that sandwich devices fabricated using this helical st‐PMMA/C 60 inclusion complex exhibit an irreversible electrical switching effect, which results from a violent Coulomb explosion in the peapod C 60 wires during the charge injection process.