Rotational Control of a Molecular Motor by an Impressed Electric Field

摘要

Recently, studies of molecular devices are actively pursued in a nano-scale research area. Molecular devices are regarded as ultimate small machines and introduce the concept that one molecule operates like a machine. A molecular motor is one of the molecular devices and consists of a molecule with an electric dipole. By applying an integral equation method and fast inverse Laplace transform, we analyze time domain responses of electric field near the molecular motor and investigate the way to control the rotational motion.