Electrochemistry of Functional Supramolecular Systems

With contributions from the most prominent experts around the world, this resource provides an accessible summary of electrochemical techniques and the applications of electrochemical concepts to molecular-level systems. It describes the most important electro-active functional supramolecular systems developed so far, including rotaxanes and catenanes as molecular machines and as elements for information processing; dendrimers as molecular batteries, sensors, light harvesting antennae, and drug delivery systems; and bio-hybrid devices.

Preface to the Wiley Series on Electrocatalysis And Electrochemistry vii Foreword ix Preface xi Contributors xiii 1. Electrochemically Controlled H-Bonding 1 Diane K. Smith 2. Molecular Motions Driven by Transition Metal Redox Couples: Ion Translocation and Assembling– Disassembling of Dinuclear Double-Strand Helicates 33 Valeria Amendola and Luigi Fabbrizzi 3. Molecular Encapsulation of Redox-Active Guests 59 Angel E. Kaifer 4. Dendritic Encapsulation of Redox-Active Units 87 Christopher B. Gorman 5. Redox-Active Metal–Polypyridine Dendrimers as Light-Harvesting Antennae 121 Fausto Puntoriero, Scolastica Serroni, Francesco Nastasi, and Sebastiano Campagna 6. Dendrimers as Multielectron Storage Devices 145 Paola Ceroni and Margherita Venturi 7. Self-assembled Monolayers and Multilayers of Electroactive Thiols 185 Ibrahim Yildiz, Françisco M. Raymo and Massimiliano Lamberto 8. Electrochemistry of Carbon Nanoparticles 201 Luis Echegoyen, Amit Palkar, and Frederic Melin 9. Molecular Devices Based on Fullerenes and Carbon Nanotubes 229 Matteo Iurlo, Demis Paolucci, Massimo Marcaccio, and Francesco Paolucci 10. Functional Electroactive Biomolecules 261 Xiaomin Bin, Piotr Michal Diakowski, Kagan Kerman, Heinz-Bernhard Kraatz 11. Functional Nanoparticles as Catalysts and Sensors 301 Brian J. Jordan, Chandramouleeswaran Subramani, and Vincent M. Rotello 12. Biohybrid Electrochemical Devices 333 Ran Tel-Vered, Bilha Willner, and Itamar Willner 13. Electroactive Rotaxanes and Catenanes 377 Alberto Credi and Margherita Venturi 14. Electrochemically Driven Molecular Machines Based on Transition-metal Complexed Catenanes and Rotaxanes 425 Jean-Paul Collin, Fabien Durola, and Jean-Pierre Sauvage 15. Electroactive Molecules and Supramolecules for Information Processing and Storage 447 Guanxin Zhang, Deqing Zhang, and Daoben Zhu 16. Electrochemiluminescent Systems as Devices and Sensors 477 Andrzej Kapturkiewicz 17. Recent Developments in the Design of Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell Components 523 Stefano Caramori and Carlo Alberto Bignozzi Index 581