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.

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 andElectrochemistry.Foreword.Preface.Contributors.1 Electrochemically Controlled H-bonding (Diane K.Smith).2 Molecular Motions Driven by Transition Metal Redox Couples:Ion Translocation and Assembling-Disassembling of Dinuclear DoubleStrand Helicates (Valeria Amendola and Luigi Fabbrizzi).3 Molecular Encapsulation of Redox-Active Guests (Angel E.Kaifer).4 Dendritic Encapsulation of Redox-Active Units (ChristopherB. Gorman).5 Redox-Active Metal-Polypyridine Dendrimers as Light-HarvestingAntennae (Fausto Puntoriero, Scolastica Serroni, FrancescoNastasi, and Sebastiano Campagna).6 Dendrimers as Multielectron Storage Devices (Paola Ceroniand Margherita Venturi).7 Self-Assembled Monolayers and Multilayers of ElectroactiveThiols (Ibrahim Yildiz, Franiiisco M. Raymo andMassimiliano Lamberto).8 Electrochemistry of Carbon Nanoparticles (Luis EchegoyenAmit Palkar, and Frederic Melin).9 Molecular Devices Based on Fullerenes and Carbon Nanotubes(Matteo Iurlo, Demis Paolucci, Massimo Marcaccio, and FrancescoPaolucci).10 Functional Electroactive Biomolecules (Xiaomin Bin, PiotrMichal Diakowski, Kagan Kerman, Heinz-Bernhard Kraatz).11 Functional Nanoparticles as Catalysts and Sensors (BrianJ. Jordan, Chandramouleeswaran Subramani, and Vincent M.Rotello).12 Biohybrid Electrochemical Devices (Ran Tel-Vered, BilhaWillner, and Itamar Willner).13 Electroactive Rotaxanes and Catenanes (Alberto Credi andMargherita Venturi).14 Electrochemically Driven Molecular Machines Based onTransition-metal Complexed Catenanes and Rotaxanes (Jean-PaulCollin, Fabien Durola, and Jean-Pierre Sauvage).15 Electroactive Molecules and Supramolecules for InformationProcessing and Storage (Guanxin Zhang, Deqing Zhang, and DaobenZhu).16 Electrochemiluminescent Systems as Devices and Sensors(Andrzej Kapturkiewicz).17 Recent Developments in the Design of Dye-Sensitized SolarCell Components (Stefano Caramori and Carlo AlbertoBignozzi).Index.