Manipulating Surface Diffusion Ability of Single Molecules by Scanning Tunneling Microscopy
Manipulating Surface Diffusion Ability of Single Molecules by Scanning Tunneling Microscopy is a scholarly work by Dingyong Zhong, published in 2009 in ''Nano Letters''. The main subjects of the publication include materials science, ferrocene, crystallography, surface science, nanotechnology, molecular electronics, aquarium substrate, molecule, scanning tunneling microscope, Scanning tunneling spectroscopy, quantum tunneling, chemical physics, terrace, diffusion, adsorption, metal, surface diffusion, chemistry, and density functional theory. The bonding of single diferrocene Fc(CH(2))(14)Fc, Fc = ferrocenyl molecules on a metal surface can be enhanced by partial decomposition of Fc groups induced by the tunneling current in scanning tunneling microscopy.