Photon-driven nanomechanical cyclic motion

Hai Feng Ji; Yu Feng; Xiaohe Xu; Vemana Purushotham; Thomas Thundat; Gilbert M. Brown

doi:10.1039/b408997a

Photon-driven nanomechanical cyclic motion

Hai Feng Ji
, Yu Feng
, Xiaohe Xu
, Vemana Purushotham
, Thomas Thundat
, Gilbert M. Brown

Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering

Louisiana Tech University
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

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Abstract

Microcantilevers modified by a monolayer of azobenzene molecules bend up and down periodically, switched by a 365 nm UV light, as a result of the conversion of the two configurations of azobenzene molecules in the monolayer.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	2532-2533
Number of pages	2
Journal	Chemical Communications
Issue number	22
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1039/b408997a
State	Published - Nov 21 2004

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