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Single Molecule Chemistry and Physics

An Introduction

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  • © 2006

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Authors:
  1. Chunli Bai

    1. National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, Beijing, China

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  2. Chen Wang

    1. National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, Beijing, China

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  • Gives important new insights into nanotechnology in chemistry and biology

Part of the book series: NanoScience and Technology (NANO)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XI
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  2. Introduction to Single Molecule Chemistry and Physics

    Pages 1-3

  3. Basics of Electron Tunneling Processes and Scanning Tunneling Microscopy

    Pages 5-27

  4. Single Molecule Structural Characterization

    Pages 29-68

  5. Single Molecule Diffusion and Chemical Reactions

    Pages 69-106

  6. Molecular Scale Analysis Using Scanning Force Microscopy

    Pages 107-129

  7. Intermolecular and Intramolecular Interactions

    Pages 131-158

  8. Electrical Conductivity of Single Molecules

    Pages 159-181

  9. Single Molecule Fluorescence Imaging and Spectroscopy: Far-Field Studies

    Pages 183-221

  10. Single Molecule Fluorescence Imaging and Spectroscopy: Near-Field Studies

    Pages 223-239

  11. Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS) of Single Molecules

    Pages 241-257

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 259-303
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About this book

Single-molecule studies constitute a distinguishable category of focused - search in nanoscience and nanotechnology. This book is dedicated to the - troduction of recent advances on single-molecule studies. It will be illustrated that studying single molecules is both intellectually and technologically ch- lenging, and also o?ers vast potential in opening up new scienti?c frontiers. We wish to present the readers with several di?erent techniques for studying single molecules, such as electron-tunneling methods, interaction-force m- surement techniques, optical spectroscopy, plus a number of directions where further progress could be pursued. We hope the work may assist the readers, especially graduate students and those who wish to explore single molecules, to become familiarized with the pace of the progress in this ?eld and the relevant primary techniques. Due to limitation of space, we are not able to elaborate on the technical details of all of the experimental methods that are vital in single molecule studies, so introductions to only selected experimental methods are touched in the context. Since the technical details and theoretical analysis of these techniqueshavealreadybeenthoroughlycoveredinmanyliteratures,weonly provide introductions to the basic principles of the detection techniques here, and focus on their experimental achievements in the area of single-molecule studies. These techniques have proven to be highly e?ective when indep- dently used. The combinationof those techniques could lead to further - vances in the detection capabilities.

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"This book provides a detailed introduction to the literature on scanning probe microscopy (SPM) … . Each chapter contains its own bibliography of the original papers, as well as occasional references to recent work by the authors themselves. … this is a valuable book that fills a gap in the reference material for teaching topics in the area of single molecules at a senior undergraduate or beginning graduate level." (Naresh Dalal, Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol. 129, 2007)

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  • National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, Beijing, China

    Chunli Bai, Chen Wang

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