The switching behavior of surface‐supported molecular units excited by current, light, or
mechanical forces is determined by the shape of the adsorption potential. The ability to tailor …

Understanding the directed motion of a single molecule on surfaces is not only important in
the well-established field of heterogeneous catalysis but also for the design of artificial …

Bottom-up approaches allow for molecular-level control of engineering new nanostructures.
For next-generation molecular circuits, machines, and phase-change materials …

The forces between the tip of a scanning tunneling microscope and an adsorbed molecule
may be exploited to induce a range of translational and conformational modes of …

Functional molecular groups mounted on specific foot structures are ideal model systems to
study intermolecular interactions, due to the possibility to separate the functionality and the …

Among the different mechanisms that can be used to drive a molecule on a surface by the tip
of a scanning tunneling microscope at low temperature, we used voltage pulses to move …

We investigate astraphloxine, an industrial dye, on two metal surfaces, Au (111) and Ag
(111). Low-temperature scanning tunneling microscopy with submolecular resolution in …

Using scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy we investigate the adsorption
properties and ring-closing reaction of a diarylethene derivative (C5F-4Py) on a Ag (1 1 1) …

Electron donor–acceptor molecules are of outstanding interest in molecular electronics and
organic solar cells for their intramolecular charge transfer controlled via electrical or optical …

Through STM images, we show that azobenzene-terminated alkanethiols hover and twirl
when confined between the Ag tip and Au (111) substrate of an STM junction. In contrast …