Promoted understanding of nanotechnology has enabled the construction of functional
materials with nanoscale-regulated structures. Accordingly, materials science requires one …

Nanotechnology has advanced the techniques for elucidating phenomena at the atomic,
molecular, and nano-level. As a post nanotechnology concept, nanoarchitectonics has …

Exploring the limits of the microscopic reversibility principle, we investigated the interplay
between thermal and electron tunneling excitations for the unidirectional rotation of a …

We investigated single deprotonated phthalocyanine molecules (HPc) on (3× 3) Bi/Ag (111)
R 30° by means of scanning tunneling microscopy (STM). Atomic-resolution topographic …

We present a low temperature scanning tunneling microscope investigation of a prochiral
thiophene-based molecule that self-assembles forming islands with different domains on the …

Using low temperature scanning tunneling microscopy (STM), spectroscopy (STS), and
precise d I/d V map** in combination with density-functional theory-parametrized …

Depending on its adsorption conformation on the Au (111) surface, a zwitterionic single-
molecule machine works in two different ways under bias voltage pulses. It is a …

By applying the nudged elastic band method in the framework of ab initio density functional
theory we calculate the energy barriers of unidirectional molecule-rotors. For the rotation to …

There has been great endeavor to engineer molecular rotors operated by an electrical
current. A frequently met operation principle is the transfer of angular momentum taken from …

By applying the nudged elastic band method in the framework of ab initio density functional
theory we calculate the energy barriers of unidirectional moleculerotors. For the rotation to …