Toward Regular Arrays of Dipolar Molecular Rotors


Josef Michl


Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, U.S.A.

and

Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, ASCR, Prague


Regular arrays of artificial dipolar molecular rotors attached to a surface or contained in a thin
layer are of interest for applications in nanoelectronics. Two approaches to such two-dimensional
materials will be described. In one, the rotors are present as guests on the surface of a host
material that contains suitably arranged channels. In the other, the rotors are mounted at the
lattice points of a synthetic two-dimensional grid prepared on the surface of a liquid.