Nanoscience with Functionalized Molecules
Nanoscience with Functional Molecules
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Welcome to our research group at
the Physical Chemistry department of
the Fritz-Haber-Institut (Max-Planck-Society). We are at moment located at
the Experimental Physics Department of
the Free University Berlin.
Our research is focussed on the study of single functionalized molecules on surfaces. By using scanning tunneling microscopy (STM), we are imaging these molecules with submolecular resolution while spectroscopy provides information on their electronic structure. Single molecules are manipulated by light or with the STM tip, using chemical forces, tunneling electrons or the electric field. Such manipulation experiments allow to induce intramolecular conformational changes or to dislocate molecules or atoms with atomic scale precision in a controlled way. |
The main goals of our work are:
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Characterization of molecular adsorption and supramolecular growth
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Inducing and understanding chemical processes at the single molecule level
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Bottom-up construction of molecular nanostructures: On-surface-polymerization
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Molecular "nanomachines" with specific mechanical or electrical functionalities
