Enlightening dynamic functions in molecular systems by intrinsically chiral light-driven molecular motors

J Sheng, DRS Pooler, BL Feringa - Chemical Society Reviews, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Chirality is a fundamental property which plays a major role in chemistry, physics, biological
systems and materials science. Chiroptical artificial molecular motors (AMMs) are a class of …

Designing light-driven rotary molecular motors

DRS Pooler, AS Lubbe, S Crespi, BL Feringa - Chemical Science, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
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 …

Photo-and redox-driven artificial molecular motors

M Baroncini, S Silvi, A Credi - Chemical reviews, 2019 - ACS Publications
Directed motion at the nanoscale is a central attribute of life, and chemically driven motor
proteins are nature's choice to accomplish it. Motivated and inspired by such …

Fluorescent photochromic α‐cyanodiarylethene molecular switches: an emerging and promising class of functional diarylethene

S Lin, KG Gutierrez‐Cuevas, X Zhang… - Advanced Functional …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Fluorescent photochromic molecules that exhibit distinct light‐triggered changes in their
emission colors are highly desirable for the fabrication of smart soft materials and advanced …

Photochromism into nanosystems: towards lighting up the future nanoworld

L Wang, Q Li - Chemical Society Reviews, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
The ability to manipulate the structure and function of promising nanosystems via energy
input and external stimuli is emerging as an attractive paradigm for developing …

The art of building small: from molecular switches to motors (Nobel Lecture)

BL Feringa - Angewandte Chemie-International Edition, 2017 - research.rug.nl
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 …

Light-driven micro/nanomotors: from fundamentals to applications

L Xu, F Mou, H Gong, M Luo, J Guan - Chemical Society Reviews, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Light, as an external stimulus, is capable of driving the motion of micro/nanomotors (MNMs)
with the advantages of reversible, wireless and remote manoeuvre on demand with …

Life-like motion driven by artificial molecular machines

F Lancia, A Ryabchun, N Katsonis - Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2019 - nature.com
Essentially, all motion in living organisms emerges from the collective action of biological
molecular machines transforming chemical energy, originally harvested from light, into …

Building machines with DNA molecules

H Ramezani, H Dietz - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2020 - nature.com
In nature, DNA molecules carry the hereditary information. But DNA has physical and
chemical properties that make it attractive for uses beyond heredity. In this Review, we …

Photoresponsive host–guest functional systems

DH Qu, QC Wang, QW Zhang, X Ma, H Tian - Chemical reviews, 2015 - ACS Publications
Supramolecular chemistry mainly focuses on the chemical systems assembled by a discrete
number of molecular components through weak and reversible noncovalent interactions …