Single Molecule Mechanics on a Surface

Dr. Fra​ncesca Moresco from the Center for Advancing Electronics Dresden, TU Dresden, 01062 Dresden, Germany, leads since 2017 the CFAED research group single molecule machines. She joined TU Dresden in 2009. Using scanning tunneling microscopy, she investigates the electronic and mechanical properties of a single molecule on a surface.Current fields of research include molecular electronics, organic electronics and molecule machines. She was Principal Investigator in several European projects and  Coordinator of the EU FET Open Project “Mechanics with Molecules” (MEMO). She is presently Coordinator of the EU H2020 project  "Energy Storage in Molecule(s)" (ESiM). She is Author of 90 publications including nine book chapters. She has an h-index of 33 (WOS) and more than 4600 citations (Google Scholar). Dr. C. Joachim is Director of Research at CEMES/CNRS and Adjunct Professor of Quantum Physics at ISAE Toulouse. He was A*STAR VIP Atom Tech in Singapore(2005-2014) and is Head of the WPI MANA-NIMS satellite in Toulouse since 2008. He coordinated the European projects "Bottom-up Nanomachines," “Pico-Inside” and “AtMol” whose objective was to prepare the construction of the first ever molecular chip. Author of more than 330 scientific publications (h-index = 62, WOS), he has given more than 400 invited talks on electron transfer and tunnel transport through a molecule, single molecule logic gates, atomic scale circuits and single molecule machines. He has been awarded the IBM France Prize (1991), the Feynman Prize (1997), the CNRS Silver Medal in Chemistry (2001), the Feynman Prize (2005), a Guinness book entry (2011) for the smallest ever functioning nano-gear, 1.2 nm in diameter and a “Star of Europe” prize for the coordination of the AtMol project (2015).

• Unidirectional Motion of Single Molecules at Surfaces.- DMBI — from n-type Dopant to Molecular Machines.- Assembly, Diffusion and Rotation of Organic Molecules on a Gold Surface.- From Early Prototypes to On-surface Drivable Single Molecule Nano-Vehicles.- On-surface Translational Activity of Porphyrin Chromophore Molecules.- Controlled Driving of a Single-molecule Anthracene-based Nanocar on a Metal Surface.- Azulene Based Nanocars.- Towards a Molecular Mechanical Calculator.- Atomistic Modelling of Energy Dissipation in Nanoscale Gears.- Molecular Networks and Surface Engineering for Single Molecule Studies: From Spatial Separation to Emergent Properties.