Electric-field control of single-molecule tautomerization

• DOI: 10.1039/c9cp06868f
• Publication Date: 2020-02-25T10:03:54Z
• Authors: Shai Mangel; Maxim Skripnik; Katharina Polyudov; Christian Dette; Tobias Wollandt; Paul Punke; Dongzhe Li; Roberto Urcuyo; Fabian Pauly; Soon Jung Jung; Klaus Kern
• Keywords: Experiment; 13. Climate action; ddc:530; Molecule; Chemical reaction; 01 natural sciences; 7. Clean energy; 0104 chemical sciences

The combination of a graphene field-effect transistor and a gate-tunable scanning tunneling microscope enables independent control over the electric field. Using this method, we studied the electric field effect on the tautomerization reaction.