… molecular switches and motors, surface assembly methods, techniques to monitor and to
understand switching, … Considerations include placing and isolating individual molecules and …

… free energy and thus changing the affinity of liquid to the surface. The modification of surfaces
with molecular switches/molecular motors opens a new way to produce surfaces with well …

… The anchoring of molecular motors on surfaces and molecular motors at work are discussed…
our work on molecular switches beginning with chiral optical molecular switches designed to …

… Many stimuli can be used to switch surfaces between different states, including redox, light,
… on molecular switching through the electronic excitation of molecules on surfaces with light. …

… surface is part of the stator, while that which is not is called the rotor (or rotator). Surface-mounted
molecular rotary motors … They could also find applications in a variety of molecular-size …

… molecular motor 11 whose wetting properties of surfaces can be modulated with light (Scheme
6). The molecular motor … enhance the surface wettability changes upon switching, and a …

… Molecular switches as well as dynamers, when designed ingenuously, can be powered at
surface by nature's most abundant and powerful energy source, ie light. In 1867 Fritzsche 30 …

… To meet these challenges first we will have to develop methodologies to assemble the
motors onto surfaces or connect them to other molecules. Alternatively, the motors might be …

… in reversible surface energy control by light using monolayers of photochemical molecular
switches is discussed. An overview on the construction of surfaces displaying photoregulated …

… The field of molecular switches and motors on surfaces and … characterisation of molecular
switching and rotation on surfaces, … work on various types of surfaces used commonly, and are …