Publications
submitted / in press
44. Charge-switchable molecular magnet and
spin blockade of tunneling 
C. Romeike,1 M. R. Wegewijs,1 M. Ruben,2 W. Wenzel,2 and H. Schoeller11 Institut für Theoretische Physik A, RWTH Aachen, 52056 Aachen, Germany
2 Institut für Nanotechnologie, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, 76021 Karlsruhe, Germany
43. Surface-Assisted Assembly of 2D Metal–Organic Networks
That Exhibit Unusual Threefold Coordination Symmetry**
Sebastain Stepanow, Nian Lin,* Dietmar Payer, Uta Schlickum, Florian Klappenberger, Giorgio Zoppellaro, Mario Ruben,
Harald Brune, Johannes V. Barth, and Klaus Kern
42. Controlled Metalation of Self-Assembled Porphyrin
Nanoarrays in Two Dimensions
Willi Auwärter, Alexander Weber-Bargioni, Susan Brink, Andreas Riemann, Agustin Schiffrin, Mario Ruben,and Johannes V. Barth
41. Conformational adaptation and selective adatom capturing of tetrapyridyl-porphyrin molecules on a copper (111) surface
Willi Auwärter+‡*, Florian Klappenberger+‡, Alexander Weber-Bargioni+, Agustin Schiffrin+, Thomas Strunskus†, Christof Wöll†, Yan Pennec+, Andreas Riemann+, and Johannes V. Barth +*Departments of Chemistry and Physics & Astronomy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T1Z4, Canada,
and Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Institut de Physique des Nanostructures, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
and Lehrstuhl für Physikalische Chemie I, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, D-44780 Bochum, Germany,
and Physik Department E20, Technische Universität München, D-85748 Garching, Germany
40. Conformational adaptation in supramolecular
assembly on surfaces: Hydrogen-bonded chains of oxalic amide derivatives on Au(111)**
Florian Klappenberger,* Marta Esther Cañas-Ventura, Sylvain Clair, Stéphane Pons, Uta Schlickum, Zhi-Rong Qu,
Harald Brune, Klaus Kern, Thomas Strunskus, Christof Wöll, Alessio Comisso, Alessandro De Vita, Mario Ruben,*
Johannes V. Barth*Institut de Physique des Nanostructures, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne (Switzerland),
Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Testing and Research (EMPA), Thun (Switzerland),
Max-Planck-Institut für Festkörperforschung, Stuttgart (Germany)
Institute of Nanotechnology, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe
Lehrstuhl für Physikalische Chemie I, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum (Germany)
King’s College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS UK,
DEMOCRITOS AND DMRN-CENMAT, Università di Trieste, Trieste (Italy)
Physik Department E20, TU Muenchen, Germany
2007
39. Pirouetting copper(I)-assembled pseudo-rotaxanes :
strong influence of the axle structure on the motion rate
Jean-Paul Collin, Fabien Durola, Pierre Mobian and Jean-Pierre SauvageLaboratoire de Chimie Organo-Mine´rale, UniVersite´ Louis Pasteur/U.M.R. du CNRS 7513, Institut Le Bel, 4, rue Blaise Pascal, 67070 Strasbourg-Cedex, France
38. Molecular Devices and Machines
V Balzani, A Credi, M Venturi
37. Molecular Photochemionics
V Balzani, R Ballardini, P Ceroni, A Credi, MT Gandolfi, M Maestri, M Semeraro, M Venturi
36. Using Light to Displace Electronic Energy,
Electrons and/or Molecular Parts in Multicomponent Systems
R Ballardini, A Credi, MT Gandolfi, F Marchioni, S Silvi, M Venturi
35. A Molecular Plug-Socket Connector
G Rogez, B Ferrer Ribera, A Credi, R Ballardini, MT Gandolfi, V Balzani, Y Liu, JF Stoddart
34. Directional Movement of Dendritic
Macromolecules on Gradient Surfaces
Theresa Chang,† Dorota I. Rozkiewicz,‡ Bart Jan Ravoo,‡ E. W. Meijer,*,†
and David N. Reinhoudt*,‡Laboratory of Macromolecular and Organic Chemistry, Eindhoven University of Technology, PO Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands,
and Laboratory of Supramolecular Chemistry and Technology, MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Twente, PO Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands
33. Surface-Assisted Assembly of 2D Metal–Organic
Networks That Exhibit Unusual Threefold Coordination Symmetry**
Sebastian Stepanow, Nian Lin, Dietmar Payer, Uta Schlickum, Florian Klappenberger, Giorgio Zoppellaro, Mario Ruben,
Harald Brune, Johannes V. Barth, and Klaus Kern
2006
32. Short time investigation of the Neurospora Kinesin step
Lorenzo Busoni, Aurélie Dupont, Clémentine Symonds, Jaques Prost, and Giovanni CappelloInstitut Curie, CNRS UMR 168, Paris Cedex. (in press, Jornal of Physics: Condensed)
31. Monitoring Two-Dimensional Coordination Reactions: Directed Assembly of Co-Terephthalate Nanosystems on Au(111)
Sylvain Clair1†*, Stéphane Pons1#, Stefano Fabris2, Stefano Baroni2, Harald Brune1, Klaus Kern1,3 and Johannes V. Barth1,4*1 Institut de Physique des Nanostructures, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
2 INFM-CNR DEMOCRITOS National Simulation Center and SISSA, Via Beirut 2-4, I-34014 Trieste, Italy
3 Max-Planck-Institut für Festkörperforschung, Heisenbergstr. 1, D-70569 Stuttgart, Germany
4 Departments of Chemistry and Physics & Astronomy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada
* sclair @ riken.jp; jvb @ chem.ubc.ca
30. Tracking Individual Kinesin Motors
in Living Cells Using Single Quantum-Dot Imaging
Sebastien Courty,† Camilla Luccardini,† Yohanns Bellaiche,‡ Giovanni Cappello,*,
§ and Maxime Dahan*,†Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, CNRS UMR 8552, Ecole normale superieure, UniVersite
Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris 6, 24 rue Lhomond 75005 Paris, France, Institut Curie,
CNRS UMR 144, 26 rue d’Ulm 75005 Paris, France, and Institut Curie,
CNRS UMR 168, 26 rue d’Ulm 75005 Paris, France
29. Molecular Sorting by Electrical Steering of
Microtubules in Kinesin-Coated Channels
Martin G. L. van den Heuvel, Martijn P. de Graaff, Cees DekkerKaVli Institute of Nanoscience, Section Molecular Biophysics, Delft UniVersity of Technology, Lorentzweg 1, 2628 CJ Delft, The Netherlands
28. Efficient synthesis of a labile copper(I)-rotaxane
complex using click chemistry
Pierre Mobian, Jean-Paul Collin and Jean-Pierre SauvageLaboratoire de Chimie Organo-Minerale, UniVersite Louis Pasteur/U.M.R. du CNRS 7513, Institut Le Bel, 4, rue Blaise Pascal, 67070 Strasbourg-Cedex, France
27. 2D Supramolecular Assemblies of
Benzene-1,3,5-triyl-tribenzoic Acid: Temperature-Induced Phase Transformations and Hierarchical Organization with
Macrocyclic Molecules
Mario Ruben,*,† Dietmar Payer,‡,^ Aitor Landa,† Alessio Comisso,§
Chiara Gattinoni,§ Nian Lin,*,‡ Jean-Paul Collin,| Jean-Pierre Sauvage,|
Alessandro De Vita,§ and Klaus Kern‡,^Contribution from the Institute for Nanotechnologie, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe GmbH, PF 3640, D-76021 Karlsruhe, Germany,
Max-Planck-Institut für Festkörperforschung, Heisenbergstrasse 1, D-70569 Stuttgart, Germany, Physics Department,
King’s College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS, U.K.,
CNR-INFM DEMOCRITOS National Simulation Center and Center of Excellence for Nanostructured Materials (CENMAT), UniVersity of Trieste, Italy,
Laboratoire de Chimie Organo-Minerale, UniVersite Louis Pasteur/U.M.R. du CNRS n° 7513, Institut Le Bel, 4, rue Blaise Pascal, 67070 Strasbourg-Cedex, France, and
Institut de Physique des Nanostructures, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
26. Autonomous Artificial Nanomotor Powered
by Sunlight
V Balzani, A Credi, M Clemente-León, B Ferrer, M Venturi, AH Flood, JF Stoddart
25. Operating Molecular Elevators
JD Badjic, CM Ronconi, AH Flood, JF Stoddart, V Balzani, S Silvi, A Credi
24. Artificial Molecular Motors Powered by Light
A Credi
23. A Comparison of Shuttling Mechanisms in Two
Constitutionally Isomeric Bistable Rotaxane-Based Sunlight-Powered Nanomotors
V Balzani, M Clemente-León, A Credi, M Semeraro, M Venturi, H-R Tseng, S Wenger, S Saha, JF Stoddart
22. Wire-type Ruthenium(II) Complexes with Terpyridine
Containing [2]Rotaxanes as Ligands.
Synthesis, Characterization and Photophysical Properties
GJE Davidson, SJ Loeb, P Passaniti, S Silvi, A Credi
21. Towards Organization of Molecular Machines at
Interfaces.
Langmuir Films and Langmuir-Blodgett Multilayers of an Acid-Base Switchable Rotaxane
M Clemente-León, A Credi, M-V Martínez-Díaz, C Mingotaud, JF Stoddart
20. Artificial Nanomachines Based on Interlocked
Molecules
A Credi
19. Molecular Machines Based on Interlocked
Molecules: Recent Advances
V Balzani, A Credi, S Silvi, M Venturi
18. Photoinduced Electron Flow in a Self-assembling
Supramolecular Extension Cable
B Ferrer, G Rogez, A Credi, R Ballardini, MT Gandolfi, V Balzani, Y Liu, H-R Tseng, JF Stoddart
17. Coexistence of one- and two-dimensional supramolecular
assemblies of terephthalic acid on Pd„111… due to self-limiting deprotonation
M. E. Cañas-Ventura,a),b) F. Klappenberger,a),c) S. Clair,d) S. Pons,
e) K. Kern,f) and H. Brune. Institut de Physique des Nanostructures, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de
Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, SwitzerlandT. Strunskus and Ch. Wöll. Lehrstuhl für Physikalische Chemie I, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, D-44780 Bochum, Germany
R. Fasel. Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Testing and Research, Nanotech@surfaces Laboratory, CH-3602 Thun, Switzerland
J. V. Barth. Department of Chemistry, University of British Columbia, BC V6T 1Z4 Vancouver, Canada and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia, BC V6T 1Z4 Vancouver, Canada
16. Monitoring Two-Dimensional Coordination Reactions: Directed
Assembly of Co-Terephthalate Nanosystems on Au(111)
Sylvain Clair,*,†,^ Stephane Pons,†,# Stefano Fabris,‡
Stefano Baroni,‡ Harald Brune,† Klaus Kern,†,§ and Johannes V. Barth*,
†,|Institut de Physique des Nanostructures, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland,
INFM-CNR DEMOCRITOS National Simulation Center and SISSA, Via Beirut 2-4, I-34014 Trieste, Italy,
Max-Planck-Institut für Festkörperforschung, Heisenbergstrasse 1, D-70569 Stuttgart, Germany,
and Departments of Chemistry and Physics & Astronomy, UniVersity of British Columbia, VancouVer, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada
15. Probing the Solvent-Assisted Nucleation
Pathway in Chemical Self-Assembly
Pascal Jonkheijm,1* Paul van der Schoot,2 Albertus P. H. J. Schenning,1† E. W. Meijer1†
2005
14. Fast sub-nanometer particle localization by Traveling Wave
Tracking
Lorenzo Busoni, Aurelie Dornier, Jean-Louis Viovy, Jacques Prost, and Giovanni CappelloPhysico Chimie Curie, UMR CNRS/IC 168, 26 rue d'Ulm, 75248 Paris Cedex 05, France
13. Molecular
Nanotechnology. Towards Artificial Molecular Machines and Motors
V. Balzani, A. Credi, F. Marchioni, S. Silvi, M. VenturiDipartimento di Chimica “G. Ciamician”, Università di Bologna, via Selmi 2, 40126 Bologna, Italy
12. High
Rectifying Efficiencies of Microtubule Motility on Kinesin-Coated Gold Nanostructures
Martin G. L. van den Heuvel,† Christopher T. Butcher,† Ralph M.M. Smeets,†
Stefan Diez,‡ and Cees Dekker*,†† KaVli Institute of Nanoscience, Section Molecular Biophysics, Delft UniVersity of Technology, Lorentweg 1, 2628 CJ Delft, The Netherlands and
‡ Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Pfotenhauerstrasse 108, 01307 Dresden, Germany
11. A Fast-Moving [2]Rotaxane Whose Stoppers Are
Remote from the Copper Complex Core
Ulla Letinois-Halbes, David Hanss, John M. Beierle, Jean-Paul Collin, and Jean-Pierre Sauvage*Laboratoire de Chimie Organo-Mine´rale, UniVersite´ Louis Pasteur/U.M.R. du CNRS 7513, Institut Le Bel, 4, rue Blaise Pascal, 67070 Strasbourg-Cedex, France
10. Rotaxane-based molecular machines operated by
photoinduced electron transfer
A Credi, B Ferrer
9. Shuttling Dynamics in an Acid-base Switchable
[2]Rotaxane
S Garaudée, S Silvi, M Venturi, A Credi,* AH Flood, JF Stoddart
8. Artificial Molecular Motors and Machines:
Design Principles and Prototype Systems
V Balzani, A Credi, B Ferrer, S Silvi, M Venturi
7. Chiral Phase Transition in Two-Dimensional Supramolecular Assemblies of Prochiral Molecules
Franck Vidal,† Erik Delvigne,‡ Sebastian Stepanow,† Nian Lin,*,† Johannes V. Barth,‡,§ and Klaus Kern †,‡Contribution from the Max-Planck-Institut für Festkörperforschung, Heisenbergstrasse 1, D-70569 Stuttgart, Germany,
Institut de Physique des Nanostructures, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland,
and Departments of Chemistry and Physics & Astronomy, The UniVersity of British Columbia, VancouVer, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada
6. Mesoscopic Metallosupramolecular Texturing by Hierarchic
Assembly
Sylvain Clair, Stephane Pons, Harald Brune, Klaus Kern, and Johannes V. Barth
5. Efficient Reconstruction of Complex Free
Energy Landscapes by Multiple Walkers Metadynamics†
Paolo Raiteri,*,‡ Alessandro Laio,‡ Francesco Luigi Gervasio,‡
Cristian Micheletti,§ and Michele Parrinello‡Computational Science, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zuerich, USI Campus, Via Buffi 13, CH-6900 Lugano, Switzerland,
and International School for AdVanced Studies (SISSA) and INFM, Via Beirut 2-4, 34014 Trieste, Italy
Received: August 5, 2005
2004
4. Electrical Docking of
Microtubules for Kinesin-Driven Motility in Nanostructures
Martin G. L. van den Heuvel,† Christopher T. Butcher,† Serge G. Lemay,† Stefan
Diez,‡ and Cees Dekker† Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, Section Molecular Biophysics, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands and
‡ Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden
3. Mesoscopic metallosupramolecular texturing through hierarchic assembly
Sylvain Clair1†, Stéphane Pons1#, Harald Brune1, Klaus Kern1,2 and Johannes V. Barth1,31 Institut de Physique des Nanostructures, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
2 Max-Planck-Institut für Festkörperforschung, Heisenbergstrasse 1, D-70569 Stuttgart, Germany
3 Departments of Chemistry and Physics & Astronomy, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1Z4, Canada
2. Rotaxane- and Catenane-based Molecular
Machines and Motors
A Credi, R Ballardini, V Balzani, B Ferrer, MT Gandolfi, S Silvi, M Venturi
1. STM Study of Terephthalic Acid Self-Assembly on Au(111):
Hydrogen-Bonded Sheets on an Inhomogeneous Substrate
†Sylvain Clair,*,‡ Stephane Pons,‡ Ari P. Seitsonen,§ Harald Brune,
‡ Klaus Kern,‡,| and Johannes V. Barth*,‡,^Institut de Physique des Nanostructures (IPN), Ecole Polytechnique Fe´de´rale de Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland,
Physikalisch Chemisches Institut (PCI), UniVersität Zürich, CH-8057 Zürich,
Max-Planck-Institut für Festkörperforschung, D-70569 Stuttgart, Germany,
and AdVanced Materials and Process Engineering Laboratory, UniVersity of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada