Electron stimulation of internal torsion of a surface-mounted molecular rotor

W Wang, X Shi, M Jin, C Minot, MA Van Hove… - ACS …, 2010 - ACS Publications
… a single-molecule altitudinal rotor fixed on a surface. Stimulated by tunneling electrons, the
… to undergo intramolecular torsional motions around the molecular long axis parallel to the …

Molecular rotors as switches

M Xue, KL Wang - Sensors, 2012 - mdpi.com
… Triggered by external stimuli such as light, electricity or … by electron tunneling instead of the
atomic molecular tunneling if … mounted molecular rotor is based on a redox-assisted electron

Molecular rotors and motors: recent advances and future challenges

J Michl, ECH Sykes - ACS nano, 2009 - ACS Publications
… machinery that can respond to electrical and optical stimuli and … electrons and rotation
ceases. Bartels explained that, by altering the chemical functionality of the rotor, the rate of electron

Experimental demonstration of a single-molecule electric motor

HL Tierney, CJ Murphy, AD Jewell, AE Baber… - Nature …, 2011 - nature.com
… motors is possible through the use of tunnelling electrons from a scanning tunnelling microscope
(… a, Schematic of the S chirality (left) and R chirality (right) of the BuSMe molecular rotor

Driving and controlling molecular surface rotors with a terahertz electric field

J Neumann, KE Gottschalk, RD Astumian - ACS nano, 2012 - ACS Publications
… Inspired by the Lorentz model for a bound electron in an … a molecular dynamics simulation
of a very fast surface rotor that … We anticipate that this work will provide stimulation for …

Molecular switches and motors powered by orthogonal stimuli

M Jeong, J Park, S Kwon - European Journal of Organic …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
… of stimuli conversion, such as photoinduced electron/proton transfer. [ 72 ] In the former part
of this section, we focus on various multistate molecular … examples of molecular systems that …

Synchronized motion and electron transfer of a redox-active rotor

S Kume, H Nishihara - Dalton Transactions, 2011 - pubs.rsc.org
… to toggle a molecular structure viaredox stimulation. From … electron transfer system controlled
by a structural conversions. If electron transfer occurs in a manner controlled by molecular

A quantitative single-molecule study of thioether molecular rotors

AE Baber, HL Tierney, ECH Sykes - Acs Nano, 2008 - ACS Publications
… machinery that can respond to electrical and optical stimuli and perform useful work such
as … the S−H bond was cleaved by tunneling electrons and rotation ceased. The Yates group …

On the way to rotaxane-based molecular motors: studies in molecular mobility and topological chirality

CA Schalley, K Beizai, F Vögtle - Accounts of Chemical Research, 2001 - ACS Publications
… been controlled by external stimuli. Since these movements … a pseudorotaxane structure
transfers an electron to one of the … decacyclene behaves as a molecular rotor in the voids of a …

From molecular machines to stimuli‐responsive materials

E Moulin, L Faour, CC Carmona‐Vargas… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
… the 360 rotation of the rotor part without quenching the … to demonstrate that one to four
electrons can be transferred from the … upon transfer of four electrons leading to the formation of its …