Molecular scanning tunneling microscopy

Keywords Adsorption surface diffusion molecular rotors self-assembly metal surfaces Scanning Tunneling Microscopy molecular nanoscience. 

Three landmark papers on the application of time-dependent perturbation theory to electrochemical problems were published in rapid succession by - Levich and - Dogonadze in 1959 [iii], - Gerischer in 1960 [iv], and McConnell in 1961 [v]. A very large literature has subsequently sprung from these works, driven by developments in scanning tunneling microscopy, molecular electronics, and biological electron transfer. 

We have considered briefly the important macroscopic description of a solid adsorbent, namely, its speciflc surface area, its possible fractal nature, and if porous, its pore size distribution. In addition, it is important to know as much as possible about the microscopic structure of the surface, and contemporary surface spectroscopic and diffraction techniques, discussed in Chapter VIII, provide a good deal of such information (see also Refs. 55 and 56 for short general reviews, and the monograph by Somoijai [57]). Scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and atomic force microscopy (AFT) are now widely used to obtain the structure of surfaces and of adsorbed layers on a molecular scale (see Chapter VIII, Section XVIII-2B, and Ref. 58). On a less informative and more statistical basis are site energy distributions (Section XVII-14) there is also the somewhat laige-scale type of structure due to surface imperfections and dislocations (Section VII-4D and Fig. XVIII-14). 

Yoshidome, M. (2006) Study of molecular aggregates on solid surface using scanning tunneling microscopy and Raman spectroscopy, Ph.D. thesis, Tohoku University. 

The objective of this book is to highlight the important strides being made toward a molecular understanding of the processes that occur at surfaces through the unique information provided by the proximal scanning probe family of techniques this principally involves scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) but some atomic force microscopy (AFM) experiments are also included. 

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