2020 Volume 76 Pages 5-20
Metal complexes exhibit distinctive optic, magnetic, and redox properties that often depend on the specific combination of metal ion and ligand(s), and both components are attractive building blocks for the construction of nanostructures on surfaces in a bottom-up approach. Surfaces usually represent a two-phase boundary (solid-liquid or liquid-air) that provides an attractive platform on which plays with metal complexes in order to design and modulate chemical functionality with potential applications in nanoscience and nanotechnology. Herein, this review focuses on the development of (i) molecular design of Ru complexes with proton-coupled electron transfer both in solution and on an ITO electrode surface, and (ii) surface modification based on redox-active Ru complexes with layer-by-layer (LbL) assembly toward molecular devices.
