One-way rotation of a chemically anchored single molecule-rotor

Frank Eisenhut (1) , Tim Kühne (1) , Jorge Monsalve (1) , Saurabh Srivastava (2) , Dmitry A Ryndyk (3, 4) , Gianaurelio Cuniberti (3) , Oumaima Aiboudi (5) , Franziska Lissel (5) , Vladimír Zobač (6) , Roberto Robles (6) , Nicolás Lorente (6) , Christian Joachim (2) , Francesca Moresco (1)

1 CFAED - Center for Advancing Electronics in Dresden
2 CEMES-GNS - Groupe NanoSciences
3 Institute for Materials Science [Dresden]
4 Theoretical Chemistry
5 IPF - Leibniz-Institut für Polymerforschung Dresden e.V.
6 CSIS-UPV/EHU - Centro de Fisica de Materiales

Superimposed STM images of the six stable rotation stations of a DMBI-P molecule during a step by step clockwise rotation induced by voltage pulses ( V = 0.5 V, I = 0.5 nA, t = 10 s).

Domains: Physics [physics]

Frank Eisenhut, Tim Kühne, Jorge Monsalve, Saurabh Srivastava, Dmitry A Ryndyk, et al.. One-way rotation of a chemically anchored single molecule-rotor. Nanoscale, 2021, 13 (38), pp.16077-16083. ⟨10.1039/D1NR04583K⟩. ⟨hal-03412808⟩