Nature Communications (Feb 2017)

Surface single-molecule dynamics controlled by entropy at low temperatures

  • J. C. Gehrig,
  • M. Penedo,
  • M. Parschau,
  • J. Schwenk,
  • M. A. Marioni,
  • E. W. Hudson,
  • H. J. Hug

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14404
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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STM is capable of imaging the configurations of molecules on surfaces and measuring the rate of transitions between them. Here the authors demonstrate that, controlled by the STM tip position, the entropic and conservative forces on the molecule can modify the rate by orders of magnitude.