Li, Y.; Wang, D.; Peng, W.; Jiang, L.; Yu, X.; Thompson, D.; Nijhuis, C. A., Large cooperative effects in tunneling rates across van der Waals coupled binary self-assembled monolayers. Nano Today 2022, 44, 101497.

In April 2022, Yuan Li’s group reported that a large cooperative effect induced by van der Waals interactions among different terminal groups in binary self-assembled monolayers increased rate of charge tunneling by nearly two orders of magnitude, switching high-performance molecular diodes into resistors.