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A turn in the right direction

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A molecular motor can be made to rotate in a clockwise or anticlockwise direction by injecting electrons into different parts of the molecule using the tip of a scanning tunnelling microscope.

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Figure 1: Controlling the direction of rotation in a molecular motor.

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  1. and at the Department of Chemistry, Karl-Heinz Ernst is at the Nanoscale Materials Science Laboratory of Empa, the Swiss Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, CH-8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland, University Zurich, CH-8057 Zürich, Switzerland,

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Ernst, KH. A turn in the right direction. Nature Nanotech 8, 7–8 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2012.243

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