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Artificial Surface‐Mounted Molecular Rotors: Molecular Dynamics Simulations
Author(s) -
Vacek J.,
Michl J.
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
advanced functional materials
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 6.069
H-Index - 322
eISSN - 1616-3028
pISSN - 1616-301X
DOI - 10.1002/adfm.200601225
Subject(s) - molecular dynamics , materials science , surface (topology) , simple (philosophy) , nanotechnology , computational chemistry , chemistry , philosophy , geometry , mathematics , epistemology
The development of artificial surface‐mounted molecular rotors has benefited from theoretical guidance by molecular dynamics simulations. After a brief survey of the origins of the project, the present understanding of the way in which these simple molecular machines operate is reviewed.