Bottom-up Fabrication of Polymer-coated Electrodes and Through-bond Redox Conduction

This article reviews recent studies on preparation of layer-by-layer assembled multilayers by stepwise chemical bond formation on the surface. Coordination reactions are useful to synthesize oligomeric and polymeric molecular wires with the desired number of complex units and with the desired physical structures. Regarding the electrode films of redox molecular wires of bis(terpyridine)metal complex oligomers we have prepared, its electrochemical analysis reveals that these redox films with ordered molecular wire structures showed through-bond redox conduction behaviors.