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Molecular cart-wheeling

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Energetic adsorption of molecules on surfaces is known to either trigger local chemical reactions or initiate the recoil of adsorbates away from the surface. Now, another possible outcome has been observed — the long-range 'cart-wheeling' of energetic molecules across a surface.

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Figure 1: Depiction of the path of a cart-wheeling ethylene molecule following stimulation by an STM electron beam.

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  1. Joseph W. Lyding is in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Beckman Institute, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA,

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Lyding, J. Molecular cart-wheeling. Nature Chem 3, 341–342 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/nchem.1035

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