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Vaezi M, Nejat Pishkenari H, Ejtehadi MR. Programmable Transport of C60 by Straining Graphene Substrate. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2023; 39:4483-4494. [PMID: 36926912 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.3c00180] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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Controlling the maneuverability of nanocars and molecular machines on the surface is essential for the targeted transportation of materials and energy at the nanoscale. Here, we evaluate the motion of fullerene, as the most popular candidate for use as a nanocar wheel, on the graphene nanoribbons with strain gradients based on molecular dynamics (MD), and theoretical approaches. The strain of the examined substrates linearly decreases by 20%, 16%, 12%, 8%, 4%, and 2%. MD calculations were performed with the open source LAMMPS solver. The essential physics of the interactions is captured by Lennard-Jones and Tersoff potentials. The motion of C60 on the graphene nanoribbon is simulated in canonical ensemble, which is implanted by using a Nose-Hoover thermostat. Since the potential energy of C60 is lower on the unstrained end of nanoribbons, this region is energetically more favorable for the molecule. As the strain gradient of the surface increases, the trajectories of the motion and the C60 velocity indicate more directed movements along the gradient of strain on the substrate. Based on the theoretical relations, it was shown that the driving force and diffusion coefficient of the C60 motion respectively find linear and quadratic growth with the increase of strain gradient, which is confirmed by MD simulations. To understand the effect of temperature, at each strain gradient of substrate, the simulations are repeated at the temperatures of 100, 200, 300, and 400 K. The large ratio of longitudinal speed to the transverse speed of fullerene at 100 and 200 K refers to the rectilinear motion of molecule at low temperatures. Using successive strain gradients on the graphene in perpendicular directions, we steered the motion of C60 to the desired target locations. The programmable transportation of nanomaterials on the surface has a significant role in different processes at the nanoscale, such as bottom-up assembly.
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- Mehran Vaezi
- Institute for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (INST), Sharif University of Technology, Tehran 11365-11155, Iran
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Nemati A, Nejat Pishkenari H, Meghdari A, Sohrabpour S. Directing the diffusive motion of fullerene-based nanocars using nonplanar gold surfaces. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2018; 20:332-344. [PMID: 29210390 DOI: 10.1039/c7cp07217a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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A new method for guiding the motion of fullerene and fullerene-based nanocars is introduced in this paper. The effects of non-flat substrates on the motion of C60, a nanocar and a nanotruck are investigated at different conditions and temperatures. Their behavior is studied using two different approaches: analyzing the variation in potential energy and conducting all-atom classical molecular dynamics simulations. This paper proposes that the use of a stepped substrate will make their motion more predictable and controllable. The results of the simulations show that C60 stays on the top side of the step and cannot jump over the step at temperatures of 400 K and lower. However, at temperatures of 500 K and higher, C60 has sufficient energy to travel to the down side of the step. C60 attaches to the edge and moves just alongside of the edge when it is on the down side of the step. The edge also restricts the motion of C60 alongside the edge and reduces its range of motion. By considering the motion of C60, the general behavior of the nanocar and nanotruck is predictable. The nanocar stays on the top side of the step at temperatures of 400 K and less; at 500 K and higher temperatures, its wheels jump off the edge, and its range of motion is restricted. The relatively rigid chassis of the nanotruck does not allow the free individual motion of the wheels. As a result, the entire nanotruck stays on the top side of the step, even at 600 K. A pathway with the desired route can be fabricated for the motion of C60 and nanocars using the method presented in this paper. This represents a step towards the directional motion of C60 and nanocars.
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- Alireza Nemati
- Nano Robotics Laboratory, Center of Excellence in Design, Robotic and Automation (CEDRA), Department of Mechanical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran.
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El Garah M, Marets N, Mauro M, Aliprandi A, Bonacchi S, De Cola L, Ciesielski A, Bulach V, Hosseini MW, Samorì P. Nanopatterning of Surfaces with Monometallic and Heterobimetallic 1D Coordination Polymers: A Molecular Tectonics Approach at the Solid/Liquid Interface. J Am Chem Soc 2015; 137:8450-9. [DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5b02283] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Laboratoire
de Tectonique Moléculaire, UMR UdS-CNRS 7140 and icFRC, Institut
Le Bel, Université de Strasbourg, 4 rue Blaise Pascal, CS 90032, 67081 Strasbourg, France
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- Institut
d’Etudes Avancées (USIAS), Université de Strasbourg, 5 allée du Général Rouvillois, 67083 Strasbourg, France
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- Laboratoire
de Tectonique Moléculaire, UMR UdS-CNRS 7140 and icFRC, Institut
Le Bel, Université de Strasbourg, 4 rue Blaise Pascal, CS 90032, 67081 Strasbourg, France
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- Laboratoire
de Tectonique Moléculaire, UMR UdS-CNRS 7140 and icFRC, Institut
Le Bel, Université de Strasbourg, 4 rue Blaise Pascal, CS 90032, 67081 Strasbourg, France
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Chu PLE, Wang LY, Khatua S, Kolomeisky AB, Link S, Tour JM. Synthesis and single-molecule imaging of highly mobile adamantane-wheeled nanocars. ACS NANO 2013. [PMID: 23189917 DOI: 10.1021/nn304584a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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The synthesis and single-molecule imaging of two inherently fluorescent nanocars equipped with adamantane wheels is reported. The nanocars were imaged using 4,4-difluoro-4-bora-3a,4a-diaza-s-indacene (BODIPY) as the chromophore, which was rigidly incorporated into the nanocar chassis via Sonogashira cross-coupling chemistry that permitted the synthesis of nanocars having different geometries. In particular, studied here were four- and three-wheeled nanocars with adamantane wheels. It was found that, for the four-wheeled nanocar, the percentage of moving nanocars and the diffusion constant show a significant improvement over p-carborane-wheeled nanocars with the same chassis. The three-wheeled nanocar showed only limited mobility due to its geometry. These results are consistent with a requisite wheel-like rolling motion. We furthermore developed a model that relates the percentage of moving nanocars in single-molecule experiments with the diffusion constant. The excellent agreement between the model and the new results presented here as well as previous single-molecule studies of fluorescent nanocars yields an improved understanding of motion in these molecular machines.
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- Pin-Lei E Chu
- Department of Chemistry, Rice University, 6100 Main Street, Houston, Texas 77005, USA
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Konstas K, Langford SJ, Latter MJ. Advances towards synthetic machines at the molecular and nanoscale level. Int J Mol Sci 2010; 11:2453-72. [PMID: 20640163 PMCID: PMC2904927 DOI: 10.3390/ijms11062453] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/25/2010] [Revised: 06/09/2010] [Accepted: 06/10/2010] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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The fabrication of increasingly smaller machines to the nanometer scale can be achieved by either a “top-down” or “bottom-up” approach. While the former is reaching its limits of resolution, the latter is showing promise for the assembly of molecular components, in a comparable approach to natural systems, to produce functioning ensembles in a controlled and predetermined manner. In this review we focus on recent progress in molecular systems that act as molecular machine prototypes such as switches, motors, vehicles and logic operators.
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- Kristina Konstas
- School of Chemistry, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, 3800, Australia; E-Mail:
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- School of Chemistry, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, 3800, Australia; E-Mail:
- Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mail: ; Tel.: +61-3-9905-4569; Fax: +61-3-9905-4597
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- Centre for Strategic Nano-fabrication, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, West Australia 6009 Australia; E-Mail:
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Kabytaev KZ, Mukhin SN, Glukhov IV, Starikova ZA, Bregadze VI, Beletskaya IP. Boron−Oxygen Bond Formation by Palladium-Catalyzed Etheration of 2-Iodo-para-carborane. Organometallics 2009. [DOI: 10.1021/om9001044] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Kuanysh Z. Kabytaev
- Chemistry Department, M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskye Gory, 119992 Moscow, Russian Federation
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- Chemistry Department, M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskye Gory, 119992 Moscow, Russian Federation
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- A. N. Nesmeyanov Institute of Organoelement Compounds, 28 Vavilov Street, 119991 Moscow, Russian Federation
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- A. N. Nesmeyanov Institute of Organoelement Compounds, 28 Vavilov Street, 119991 Moscow, Russian Federation
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- A. N. Nesmeyanov Institute of Organoelement Compounds, 28 Vavilov Street, 119991 Moscow, Russian Federation
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- Chemistry Department, M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskye Gory, 119992 Moscow, Russian Federation
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The drive to miniaturize devices has led to a variety of molecular machines inspired by macroscopic counterparts such as molecular motors, switches, shuttles, turnstiles, barrows, elevators, and nanovehicles. Such nanomachines are designed for controlled mechanical motion and the transport of nanocargo. As researchers miniaturize devices, they can consider two complementary approaches: (1) the "top-down" approach, which reduces the size of macroscopic objects to reach an equivalent microscopic entity using photolithography and related techniques and (2) the "bottom-up" approach, which builds functional microscopic or nanoscopic entities from molecular building blocks. The top-down approach, extensively used by the semiconductor industry, is nearing its scaling limits. On the other hand, the bottom-up approach takes advantage of the self-assembly of smaller molecules into larger networks by exploiting typically weak molecular interactions. But self-assembly alone will not permit complex assembly. Using nanomachines, we hope to eventually consider complex, enzyme-like directed assembly. With that ultimate goal, we are currently exploring the control of nanomachines that would provide a basis for the future bottom-up construction of complex systems. This Account describes the synthesis of a class of molecular machines that resemble macroscopic vehicles. We designed these so-called nanocars for study at the single-molecule level by scanning probe microscopy (SPM). The vehicles have a chassis connected to wheel-terminated axles and convert energy inputs such as heat, electric fields, or light into controlled motion on a surface, ultimately leading to transport of nanocargo. At first, we used C(60) fullerenes as wheels, which allowed the demonstration of a directional rolling mechanism of a nanocar on a gold surface by STM. However, because of the low solubility of the fullerene nanocars and the incompatibility of fullerenes with photochemical processes, we developed new p-carborane- and ruthenium-based wheels with greater solubility in organic solvents. Although fullerene wheels must be attached in the final synthetic step, p-carborane- and ruthenium-based wheels do not inhibit organometallic coupling reactions, which allows a more convergent synthesis of molecular machines. We also prepared functional nanotrucks for the transport of atoms and molecules, as well as self-assembling nanocars and nanotrains. Although engineering challenges such as movement over long distance and non-atomically flat surfaces remain, the greatest current research challenge is imaging. The detailed study of nanocars requires complementary single molecule imaging techniques such as STM, AFM, TEM, or single-molecule fluorescence microscopy. Further developments in engineering and synthesis could lead to enzyme-like manipulation and assembly of atoms and small molecules in nonbiological environments.
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- Guillaume Vives
- Departments of Chemistry and Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, The Smalley Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology, Rice University, MS-222, 6100 Main Street, Houston, Texas 77005
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- Departments of Chemistry and Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, The Smalley Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology, Rice University, MS-222, 6100 Main Street, Houston, Texas 77005
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