Co-Inseln Helizen (IMAGE)

Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (EMPA)

Co-Inseln Helizen

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If only left-handed helicene spirals are deposited on the cobalt-copper surface, they clearly prefer cobalt islands with a certain direction of magnetization. In the image, the two triangular cobalt islands have opposite magnetization; the left-handed helicene molecules bind almost exclusively to the island on the right and avoid the island on the left (except for a few molecules at the edge of the island). Image: Peter Grünberg Institute/Jülich

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Image: Peter Grünberg Institute/Jülich

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