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Min Li1, Duncan den Boer, Patrizia Iavicoli
1Division of Molecular Imaging and Photonics, KU Leuven-University of Leuven , Celestijnenlaan 200-F, 3001 Leuven, Belgium.
Journal of the American Chemical Society
|November 25, 2014
Abstract:
Changing abruptly the potential between a scanning tunneling microscope tip and a graphite substrate induces "high-conductance" spots at the molecular level in a monolayer formed by a manganese chloride-porphyrin molecule. These events are attributed to the pulse-induced formation of μ-oxo-porphyrin dimers. The pulse voltage must pass a certain threshold for dimer formation, and pulse polarity determines the yield.

