Molecular switches at surfaces
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Molecular switches at surfaces.
In nature, molecules exploit the interaction with their environment to realize complex functionalities on the nanometer length scale. Physical, chemical and/or biological specificity is frequently achieved by switching of molecules between microscopically different states. Paradigmatic examples are the energy production in proton pumps of bacteria or the signal conversion in human vision which ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0953-8984,1361-648X
DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/24/39/390201