Six state molecular revolver mounted on a rigid platform

• Published in: Nanoscale Vol. 11; no. 18; pp. 915 - 922
• Main Authors: Homberg, Jan, Lindner, Marcin, Gerhard, Lukas, Edelmann, Kevin, Frauhammer, Timo, Nahas, Yasmine, Valášek, Michal, Mayor, Marcel, Wulfhekel, Wulf
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Royal Society of Chemistry 09.05.2019
• Subjects: Axes of rotation; Metastable state; Molecular motors; Parameter identification; Rotational states; Scanning tunneling microscopy; Switching

The rotation of entire molecules or large moieties happens at 100 ps time scales and the transition process itself is experimentally inaccessible to scanning probe techniques. However, the reversible switching of a molecule between more than two metastable states allows to assign a rotational switch...