Electrochemical write and read functionality through oxidative dimerization of spiropyran self-assembled monolayers on gold

O Ivashenko, JT van Herpt, BL Feringa…

Index: Ivashenko, Oleksii; Van Herpt, Jochem T.; Rudolf, Petra; Feringa, Ben L.; Browne, Wesley R. Chemical Communications, 2013 , vol. 49, # 60 p. 6737 - 6739

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Abstract

In contrast to their photochromism, the electrochemistry of spiropyrans in self-assembled monolayers has attracted only modest attention in recent years. In this contribution the electrochemical oxidation of self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) of 6-nitro-BIPS spiropyran (SP) prepared on polycrystalline gold surfaces is described. The SAMs were characterized with cyclic voltammetry, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), surface-enhanced ...