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NANOSCALE
Volume 8, Issue 4, Pages 2428-2433Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c5nr06966a
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- UK EPSRC [EP/K001507/1, EP/J014753/1, EP/H035818/1]
- EU ITN MOLESCO [606728]
- Higher Education Ministry, Al Qadisiyah University, IRAQ
- EPSRC [EP/J014753/1, EP/K001507/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/K001507/1, EP/J014753/1, EP/H035818/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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We investigated the thermoelectric properties of metalloporphyrins connected by thiol anchor groups to gold electrodes. By varying the transition metal-centre over the family Mn, Co, Ni, Cu, Fe, and Zn we are able to tune the molecular energy levels relative to the Fermi energy of the electrodes. The resulting single-molecule room-temperature thermopowers range from almost zero for Co and Cu centres, to +80 mu V K-1 and +230 mu V K-1 for Ni and Zn respectively. In contrast, the thermopowers with Mn(II) or Fe(II) metal centres are negative and lie in the range -280 to -260 mu V K-1. Complexing these with a counter anion to form Fe(III) and Mn(III) changes both the sign and magnitude of their thermopowers to + 218 and + 95 respectively. The room-temperature power factors of Mn(II), Mn(III), Fe(III), Zn and Fe(II) porphyrins are predicted to be 5.9 x 10(-5) W m(-1) K-2, 5.4 x 10(-4) W m(-1) K-2, 9.5 x 10(-4) W m(-1) K-2, 1.6 x 10(-4) W m(-1) K-2 and 2.3 x 10(-4) W m(-1) K-2 respectively, which makes these attractive materials for molecular-scale thermoelectric devices.
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