Mechanically activated molecular switch through single-molecule pulling

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 133, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 2242-2249

  Franco, Ignacio ^a   George, Christopher B ^a   Solomon, Gemma C ^b   Schatz, George C ^a   Ratner, Mark A ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPES; CHARGE TRANSPORT; DYNAMIC BISTABILITY; FOLDED STATE; FORCE SPECTROSCOPY; MOLECULAR SWITCHES; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; SINGLE MOLECULE EXPERIMENTS; SINGLE-MOLECULE; STATISTICAL SAMPLING; STRUCTURE-FUNCTION RELATIONSHIP; THERMODYNAMIC LIMITS;

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR ELECTRONICS; SAMPLING;

MOLECULES;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CONDUCTANCE; CONFORMATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR ELECTRONICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; PHENOMENOLOGY; SIMULATION; SPECTROSCOPY; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 79951818692     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: 15205126     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja1095396     Document Type: Article

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