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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
卷 110, 期 25, 页码 -出版社
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.256101
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- U.S. Department of Energy Basic Energy Sciences, Chemical Sciences, Geosciences, and Biosciences Division [DE-SC0001854]
The mobility of molecules on a solid surface plays a key role in diverse phenomena such as friction and self-assembly and in surface-based technologies like heterogeneous catalysis and molecular targeting. To understand and control these surface processes, a universally applicable model of surface transport at solid-liquid interfaces is needed. However, unlike diffusion at a solid-gas interface, little is known about the mechanisms of diffusion at a solid-liquid interface. Using single-molecule tracking at a solid-liquid interface, we found that a diverse set of molecules underwent intermittent random walks with non-Gaussian displacements. This contrasts with the normal random walk and Gaussian statistics that are commonly assumed for molecular surface diffusion. The molecules became temporarily immobilized for random waiting times between surface displacements produced by excursions through the bulk fluid. A common power-law distribution of waiting times indicated a spectrum of binding energies. We propose that intermittent hopping is universal to molecular surface diffusion at a solid-liquid interface.
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