PTC Seminar: Theoretical Studies of Mixed-Valence Organometallic Species for Potential Utilization as Quantum Cellular Automata

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• Jean-François Halet Institut des Sciences Chimiques de Rennes, UMR 6226 CNRS-Université de Rennes
• Thursday 18 May 2017, 15:00-16:00
• Haworth 203.

If you have a question about this talk, please contact Dr Dwaipayan Chakrabarti.

PTC Seminar hosted by Prof. Roy L. Johnston

The chemistry of mixed-valence complexes joins that of molecular electronics in the quantum cellular automata (QCA) paradigm, a concept which has been demonstrated to be a possible alternative to the transistor-based technology, in which binary information is encoded in the configuration of charge among redox-active molecular sites. Indeed, the simplest molecular QCA cell is a symmetric mixed-valence system in which the binary states are represented by the location of a mobile electron at one center or the other. Experimental and theoretical efforts have recently been devoted to molecular mixed-valence organometallic systems containing four metal centers as candidates for QCAs. Properties of specific examples based on recently synthesized and hypothetical tetrametallic molecules will theoretically be analyzed and discussed with the aid of DFT calculations.

This talk is part of the School of Chemistry Seminars series.

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