The first nanocar race

Gwénaël Rapenne (1) , Christian Joachim (1)

1 CEMES-GNS - Groupe NanoSciences

The first race involving molecular ‘cars’ stimulated technical advances in scanning tunnelling microscopy and provided insights in surface science and synthetic chemistry — it also attracted wide interest from the public.

Domaines: Physique [physics]

Gwénaël Rapenne, Christian Joachim. The first nanocar race. Nature Reviews Materials, 2017, 2, ⟨10.1038/natrevmats.2017.40⟩. ⟨hal-01712748⟩