The latest article of the Research Group "Switchable molecular functionalized surfaces" headed by Dr. Monakhov and cooperation partners describes adsorption and electron modification studies of polyoxometalates (POMs) featuring vanadium on surfaces. The POMs are discussed as possible active switching units in what may be called “molecule-based memory cells”. The reported research findings and conceptual ideas aim to assist experimentalists and theoreticians to advance the exploration of POM electrical conductivity as a function of metal redox and spin states and to pave the way for a realization of (“brain-inspired”) POM-based memory devices, memristive POM-surface device engineering, and energy efficient nonvolatile data storage and processing technologies.
The article has been published in the renowned journal Accounts of Chemical Research and featured on a journal cover page:

Insights from Adsorption and Electron Modification Studies of Polyoxometalates on Surfaces for Molecular Memory Applications
Marco Moors, Jonas Warneke, Xavier López, Coen de Graaf, Bernd Abel, Kirill Yu. Monakhov
Acc. Chem. Res. 2021, 54, 17, 3377–3389.
https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.accounts.1c00311