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Direct Imaging of Laser-driven Ultrafast Molecular Rotation
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Acceleration of a nanomotor: electronic control of the rotary speed of a light-driven molecular rotor
Dirk Pijper1, Richard A van Delden, Auke Meetsma
1Department of Organic and Molecular Inorganic Chemistry, Stratingh Institute, University of Groningen, Nijenborgh 4, 9747 AG Groningen, The Netherlands.
Journal of the American Chemical Society
|December 15, 2005
Abstract:
A new second-generation light-driven molecular motor was designed, in which the presence of a potential electronic push-pull system leads to a significant increase of the rate of rotation compared to previous motor systems, without disturbing its overall unidirectionality.
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