Reversible Photomechanical Switching of Individual Engineered Molecules at a Metallic Surface
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Reversible Photomechanical Switching of Individual Engineered Molecules at a Surface
We have observed reversible light-induced mechanical switching for individual organic molecules bound to a metal surface. Scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) was used to image the features of individual azobenzene molecules on Au(111) before and after reversibly cycling their mechanical structure between trans and cis states using light. Azobenzene molecules were engineered to increase their su...
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عنوان ژورنال: Physical Review Letters
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0031-9007,1079-7114
DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.99.038301