A nanomechanical device based on linear molecular motors

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 85, Issue 22, 2004, Pages 5391-5393

  Huang, Tony Jun ^a   Brough, Branden ^a   Ho, Chih Ming ^a   Liu, Yi ^a   Flood, Amar H ^a   Bonvallet, Paul A ^a   Tseng, Hsian Rong ^a   Stoddart, J Fraser ^a   Baller, Marko ^b   Magonov, Sergei ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b VEECO INSTRUMENTS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROCANTILEVER BEAMS; MOLECULAR MOTORS; NANOMECHANICAL DEVICES; PHOTOTHERMAL EFFECTS;

MONOLAYERS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; OXIDATION; PASSIVATION; PH EFFECTS; REDUCTION; SELF ASSEMBLY;

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

EID: 19944384903     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1826222     Document Type: Article

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