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2020 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

Transmission of Rotational Motion Between Molecule-Gears

Authors : W.-H. Soe, S. Srivastava, C. Joachim

Published in: Building and Probing Small for Mechanics

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

A molecule-gear rotating without a lateral jittering effect is constructed using a single copper adatom as a physical axle on a lead superconducting surface. The molecule-gear has a diameter of 1.2 nm with 6 tert-butyl-teeth. It is mounted on this Cu axle using the atom/molecule manipulation capability of a low temperature scanning tunneling microscope (LT-STM). Transmission of rotational motions between 2 molecule-gears, whose axles have to be exactly 1.9 nm separated, is functioning when this train of molecule-gears is completed with a molecule-handle. To manipulate the molecule-handle laterally, the first molecule-gear of the train directly entangled with the molecule-handle is step by step rotated around its Cu adatom axle. It drives the second molecule-gear mechanically engaged with the first gear to rotate like along a train of macroscopic solid-state gears. Such rotation transmission is one of the most basic function for the future construction of a complex molecular machinery.

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Metadata
Title
Transmission of Rotational Motion Between Molecule-Gears
Authors
W.-H. Soe
S. Srivastava
C. Joachim
Copyright Year
2020
Book
Building and Probing Small for Mechanics

Print ISBN: 978-3-030-56776-7

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-56777-4

Copyright Year: 2020

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56777-4_9

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