Single-molecule-resolved structural changes induced by temperature and light in surface-bound organometallic molecules designed for energy storage

ACS Nano

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 3701-3706

  Cho, Jongweon ^a,e   Berbil Bautista, Luis ^a,b   Pechenezhskiy, Ivan V ^a   Levy, Niv ^a,b,f   Meier, Steven K ^a   Srinivasan, Varadharajan ^c,g   Kanai, Yosuke ^d   Grossman, Jeffrey C ^c   Vollhardt, K Peter C ^a   Crommie, Michael F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^d LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^f NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^g INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE EDUCATION AND RESEARCH BHOPAL   (India)

Author keywords

Co loss; Fulvalene; Isomerization energy storage; Ruthenium; Scanning tunneling microscopy

Indexed keywords

AU(1 1 1 ); AU(111) SURFACES; CARBONYL LIGAND; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY CALCULATIONS; FULVALENE; ORGANO-METALLIC MOLECULES; PHASE CHANGE; PHOTO-INDUCED; PHOTOISOMERIZATION REACTION; PHOTOISOMERS; STRUCTURAL CHANGE; STRUCTURAL TRANSITIONS; THERMALLY INDUCED; UV EXPOSURE;

AUGER ELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; ENERGY STORAGE; FLYWHEELS; MOLECULES; ORGANOMETALLICS; RUTHENIUM; RUTHENIUM COMPOUNDS; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY;

ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY;

GOLD; ORGANIC COMPOUND;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENERGY TRANSFER; LIGHT; RADIATION EXPOSURE; TEMPERATURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENERGY TRANSFER; GOLD; LIGHT; MODELS, CHEMICAL; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 80051487523     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn2000367     Document Type: Article

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