AVS 63rd International Symposium & Exhibition
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Invited Paper SP+AS+MI+NS+SS-TuM10
Imaging Single Molecule Chemistry

Tuesday, November 8, 2016, 11:00 am, Room 104A

Session: Probing Chemical Reactions at the Nanoscale
Presenter: Wilson Ho, University of California Irvine
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Single molecule chemistry can now be probed at unprecedented spatial resolution with a low temperature scanning tunneling microscope (STM) in ultrahigh vacuum. Advances in this field have provided new measurements and insights into the structure and function of molecules through real space imaging and high resolution vibrational spectroscopy. The combination of the STM with optical spectroscopy and femtosecond lasers has added a new dimension of time to space and enabled the probing of single molecule dynamics in light-matter interaction with better than 0.1 nm resolution. The ability to visualize single molecule chemistry has reinvigorated the study of molecules and their transformations on solid surfaces. Much of the scientific advancement and understanding in surface chemistry have derived from the well-defined conditions that have long been championed by surface science in providing unambiguous results that are appealing to the theoretical and experimental communities. Imaging single molecule chemistry has a broader impact on general chemistry due principally to direct visualization of molecules and their inner machinery at the limit of space and time.