Influencing intramolecular motion with an alternating electric field

Nature

Volumn 406, Issue 6796, 2000, Pages 608-611

  Bermudez, Veronica ^a   Capron, Nathalle ^b   Gase, Torsten ^a   Gatti, Francesco G ^c   Kajzar, François ^a   Leigh, David A ^c   Zerbetto, Francesco ^b   Zhang, Songwei ^c  

^a CEA LETI   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ROTAXANE;

ALTERNATING CURRENT; ARTICLE; BIREFRINGENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTRONICS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROTATION; TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 0034632888     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35020531     Document Type: Article

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