Surface Mounted Molecular Rotors: Synthesis,

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Surface Mounted Molecular Rotors Synthesis,
Dynamics, and Interactions University of
Colorado, Northwestern University, NIST DURINT,
year started 2001 email
michl_at_eefus.colorado.edu
Approach
New Ideas

• Synthesis of rotor molecules with designed
  function
• Electronic, optical, fluidic and STM
  characterization

Collective properties, ordered 2-d arrays with
polar phases and propagating waves, rotor
dynamics via STM, low friction surfaces,
molecular machinery, new optical materials
Molecular motor driven by DC electron transport
Delay line based on rotary wave propagation in
ferroelectric phase
Impact
Status
5/1/01 Start 6/19/01 Kick-off meeting in
Aberdeen Synthesis of 7-azanorbornadiene
completed Dielectric response study of Cl-Me
rotors on quartz Regular hexagonal grid
formation on Hg surface Synthesis of trigonal
and tetragonal connectors Horizontal axle rotor
molecule synthesized
Basic physics of molecular rotors interactions
with substrate, electric fields, light, and
fluids Synthesis of new complex chemical
structures Fast response laser light
protection New polar electronic materials with
transducer, detector, and signal processing
applications Molecular motors Molecular storage
elements