ERC Advanced Grant · 2022
Adsorbate Motors: Tricking Microscopic Reversibility on Surfaces
AMOS represents a ground-breaking approach to achieve uni-directional motion on well-defined surfaces, realize cooperative motor activity, control flow processes and transport cargo at the atomic scale. It is based on molecule-surface motors that overcome microscopic reversibility via controlled potential energy surface modulation with high potential impact in various fields. Light will be used to excite molecular motion, offering great versatility. Hence, the stimulus is given remotely to many molecules, while characterization is done at the single-molecule level, allowing for statistical analysis of trajectories in two dimensions. Different motor concepts will be used to controllably…
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