title: Anchoring of a single molecular rotor and its array on metal surfaces using molecular design and self-assembly.
abstract: Functionalizing of single molecules on surfaces has manifested great potential for bottom-up construction of complex devices on a molecular scale. We discuss the growth mechanism for the initial layers of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons on metal surfaces and we review our recent progress on molecular machines, and present a molecular rotor with a fixed off-center axis formed by chemical bonding. These results represent important advances in molecular-based nanotechnology.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
authors.forename: Li
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Gao
authors.forename: Shi-Xuan
authors.initials: SX
authors.lastname: Du
authors.forename: Hong-Jun
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Gao
mesh_terms: D008670:Metals / Q000737:chemistry*; D016252:Microscopy, Scanning Tunneling; D036103:Nanotechnology; D011084:Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons / Q000737:chemistry*; D013499:Surface Properties
chemical_list: D008670:Metals; D011084:Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons
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