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SUMMARY:Single Molecular Devices - Dr Andre Gourdon\, Centre d'Elaboration
  de Matériaux et d'Etudes Structurales\, Toulouse\, France
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CONTACT:Dr James Bendall
DESCRIPTION:Low-temperature UHV Scanning Tunnelling Microscopes are nowada
 ys not only microscopes but tools at the nanoscale allowing manipulation o
 f atoms and molecules\, sub-molecular spectroscopy experiments\, chemical 
 activation etc…It opens the way to new measurements\, new researches on 
 single molecules with exceedingly high accuracy and control. To carry out 
 such experiments\, specific molecules have to be designed [1]. In this pre
 sentation\, we will introduce series of molecular devices devised for stud
 ying \nelectronic and mechanical properties at the single molecular level.
  For instance\, molecular devices designed to trap and move metallic atoms
  (Fig 1) [2]\, to perform switching and conformational changes [3] or to d
 emonstrate a rack-and-pinion mechanism will be presented [4].\n\nReference
 s:\n1	F. Moresco and A. Gourdon\, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA  8809 (2005) 
 102.\n2	L. Gross\, K.-H. Rieder\, F. Moresco\, S. Stojkovic\, A. Gourdon a
 nd C. Joachim\, 	Nature Materials 892 (2005) 4.\n3	L. Grill\, K.-H. Rieder
 \, and F. Moresco\, S. Stojkovic\, A. Gourdon\, and C. Joachim\n	Nanolette
 rs  12(6)\, (2006) 2685.\n4	F. Chiaravalloti\, L. Gross\, K.-H. Rieder\, S
 . M. Stojkovic\, A. Gourdon\, C. Joachim\, and 	F. Moresco Nature Material
 s 6 (2007) 30.\n
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