Conspectus Molecules and materials can show dynamic structures in which the dominant
mechanism is rotary motion. The single mobile elements are defined as “molecular rotors” …

Recent developments in chemical synthesis, nanoscale assembly, and molecular-scale
measurements enable the extension of the concept of macroscopic machines to the …

Molecular dynamics simulations of the response to oscillating electric field elicited from an
altitudinal dipolar molecular rotor mounted on the Au (111) surface and previously studied …

Biological molecular motors (or biomolecular motors for short) are nature's solution to the
efficient conversion of chemical energy to mechanical movement. In biological systems …

The bacterial flagellar motor is a reversible rotary nano-machine, about 45 nm in diameter,
embedded in the bacterial cell envelope. It is powered by the flux of H+ or Na+ ions across …

Making molecular machines that can be useful in the macroscopic world is a challenging
long-term goal of nanoscience. Inspired by the protein machinery found in biological …

The development of artificial surface‐mounted molecular rotors has benefited from
theoretical guidance by molecular dynamics simulations. After a brief survey of the origins of …

Conspectus More than two decades of investigating the chemistry of bistable mechanically
interlocked molecules (MIMs), such as rotaxanes and catenanes, has led to the advent of …

Molecular motors can be immobilized to transport filaments and loads that are attached to
these filaments inside a nano-device. However, if motors are distributed uniformly over a flat …