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Light-driven Molecular Motors on Surfaces for Single Molecular Imaging
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Control of surface wettability using tripodal light-activated molecular motors
Kuang-Yen Chen1, Oleksii Ivashenko, Gregory T Carroll
1Centre for Systems Chemistry, Stratingh Institute for Chemistry and Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials, University of Groningen , Nijenborgh 4, 9747 AG, Groningen, The Netherlands.
Journal of the American Chemical Society
|February 5, 2014
Abstract
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Monolayers of fluorinated light-driven molecular motors were synthesized and immobilized on gold films in an altitudinal orientation via tripodal stators. In this design the functionalized molecular motors are not interfering and preserve their rotary function on gold. The wettability of the self-assembled monolayers can be modulated by UV irradiation.

