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Pushing the right button

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In a metal complex, a tin ion can be pushed and pulled through a flat macrocyclic ring with a scanning tunnelling microscope, allowing the molecule to act as a switch.

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Figure 1: A molecular push-button switch.

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  1. Nongjian Tao is at the Center for Bioelectronics and Biosensors, Biodesign Institute, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287, USA. njtao@asu.edu,

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Tao, N. Pushing the right button. Nature Chem 1, 108–109 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/nchem.194

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