Assembling Supramolecular Rotors on Surfaces Under Ambient Conditions

Molecular rotor as a high-temperature Brownian motor

“…The last is also typical for chemisorbed polyatomic molecules or polyatomic groups tightly bound to a surface through one atom, whereas other atoms can have several equilibrium positions in the potential induced by the nearest substrate atoms [1,2]. Recently high interest has been attracted by so-called molecular rotors artificially formed on surfaces [3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15]. They are the special case of molecular motors.…”

“…The authors of [13] investigated the specificity of the weak links between the two rotors and the simulated energy barriers. In [14], authors discussed the artificially created rotors with "paddle-like" arms.…”