Motor proteins are nature's solution for directing movement at the molecular level. The field
of artificial molecular motors takes inspiration from these tiny but powerful machines …

Molecular machines are common in nature, but creating nanoscale devices from scratch is
not as easy it looks. Two ways of making a molecular motor capable of unidirectional motion …

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 field of synthetic molecular machines has quickly evolved in recent years, growing from
a fundamental curiosity to a highly active field of chemistry. Many different applications are …

Biomolecular motors, in particular motor proteins, are ideally suited to introduce chemically
powered movement of selected components into devices engineered at the micro‐and …

In this review we chart recent advances in what is at once an old and very new field of
endeavour—the achievement of control of motion at the molecular level including solid-state …

A journey into the nano-world: The ability to design, use and control motor-like functions at
the molecular level sets the stage for numerous dynamic molecular systems. In his Nobel …

Molecular motors, an important class of molecular machines, harness various energy
sources to generate unidirectional mechanical motion. The operational principles of these …

The ability to induce and amplify motion at the molecular scale has seen tremendous
progress ranging from simple molecular rotors to responsive materials. In the two decades …

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