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Quantifying Force and Energy in Single-Molecule Metalation
Karl Rothe1, Nicolas Néel1, Marie-Laure Bocquet2
1Institut für Physik, Technische Universität Ilmenau, D-98693 Ilmenau, Germany.
Abstract:
An atomic force microscope is used to determine the attractive interaction at the verge of adding a Ag atom from the probe to a single free-base phthalocyanine molecule adsorbed on Ag(111). The experimentally extracted energy for the spontaneous atom transfer can be compared to the energy profile determined by density functional theory using the nudged-elastic-band method at a defined probe-sample distance.
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