Electrically driven directional motion of a four-wheeled molecule on a metal surface

Nature

Volumn 479, Issue 7372, 2011, Pages 208-211

  Kudernac, Tibor ^a,b,e   Ruangsupapichat, Nopporn ^b   Parschau, Manfred ^c   MacIá, Beatriz ^a   Katsonis, Nathalie ^a,b,e   Harutyunyan, Syuzanna R ^a   Ernst, Karl Heinz ^c,d   Feringa, Ben L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c SWISS FEDERAL LABORATORIES FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPPER; METAL;

ELECTRIC FIELD; METAL; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; SCANNING TUNNELLING MICROSCOPY;

ARTICLE; CHIRALITY; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; DIRECTIONAL MOTION; ELECTRON; EXCITATION; MOLECULE; MOTION; MOTOR UNIT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY;

EID: 80855128826     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature10587     Document Type: Article

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