Building and Probing Small for Mechanics

Christian Joachim is the Director of Research at the Nanosciences Group in CEMES/CNRS, and an Adjunct Professor of Quantum Physics at ISAE Sup’Aero in Toulouse. In Singapore, he was A*STAR VIP at IMRE for atom technology and he now serves as the Head of the WPI MANA-NIMS satellite in Toulouse. He coordinated the integrated European projects “Bottom-up Nanomachines,” “Pico-Inside” and “AtMol” (2011–2014), whose objective was to prepare the construct of the first ever molecular chip. He is the author of more than 300 scientific publications and has given over 400 invited talks on electron transfer through a molecule, STM and Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) image calculations, tunnel transport through a molecule, molecular devices, nanolithography, and single-molecule machines.

• Introduction: from the Anthycytera astronomical clock to molecular machinery.- From the Pascaline to a 5-digits metallic and planar miniature mechanical calculator 1 cm in lateral size.- Photo-microlithography fabrication of the parts of a micro-mechanical calculator.- Fabricating solid state gears at the nanoscale.- Prototypes of molecular gears with an organometallic piano-stool architecture.- Design and synthesis of a nano-winch.- Chemical anchoring of molecular rotors.- Anchoring molecular rotors by on-surface synthesis.- Transmission of Rotational Motion between Molecule-Gears.- A simple train of PF3 molecule-gears and its mechanics.- Modelling of Molecule-Scale Single Gears and Gear Trains.- Rotation of Adsorbed molecules induced by tunneling electrons.- Motion and Nanomechanical effects in Supramolecular Catalysts.- Five minutes in the life of a molecular shuttle: near-equilibrium measurements of shuttling dynamics with optical tweezers