Delivers comprehensive coverage of key subjects in self-assembly and nanotechnology,
approaching these and related topics with one unified concept. Designed for students and …

The concept of a “power stroke”—a free‐energy releasing conformational change—appears
in almost every textbook that deals with the molecular details of muscle, the flagellar rotor …

A microcantilever, coated with a monolayer of redox-controllable, bistable [3] rotaxane
molecules (artificial molecular muscles), undergoes reversible deflections when subjected to …

Monolayers of fluorinated light-driven molecular motors were synthesized and immobilized
on gold films in an altitudinal orientation via tripodal stators. In this design the functionalized …

The development of molecular machines requires new building blocks which are easy to
characterize and visualize to realize a complexity comparable to their natural counterparts …

The past quarter of a century has witnessed an increasing engagement on the part of
physicists and chemists in the design and synthesis of molecular machines de novo. This …

Nanovehicles are a new class of molecular machines consisting of a molecular scale
chassis, axles, and wheels, that can roll across solid surfaces with structurally defined …

Metal− organic frameworks (MOFs) have been the focus of much interest within the context
of hydrogen storage and other materials applications. With static metal clusters linked by …

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” …

With the eventual goal of demonstrating a motorized nanocar, the key structure has been
synthesized which bears a light-activated unidirectional molecular motor and an oligo …