Precise orientation of a single C 60 molecule on the tip of a scanning probe microscope

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 108, Issue 26, 2012, Pages

  Chiutu, C ^a   Sweetman, A M ^a   Lakin, A J ^a   Stannard, A ^a   Jarvis, S ^a   Kantorovich, L ^b   Dunn, J L ^a   Moriarty, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC PRECISION; C ATOMS; FULLERENE CAGES; INTERACTION POTENTIALS; MOLECULAR ROTATIONS; NONCONTACT ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; PAIR POTENTIAL; PROBE MICROSCOPE; ROBUST METHODS; SCANNING PROBE MICROSCOPE; THEORETICAL PREDICTION; VAN DER WAALS INTERACTIONS;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; FULLERENES; MICROSCOPES; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR ORIENTATION; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; STEREOCHEMISTRY; VAN DER WAALS FORCES;

MOLECULES;

EID: 84862993065     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.268302     Document Type: Article

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