Molecular machines, and in particular molecular motors with synthetic molecular structures
and fuelled by external light, voltage or chemical conversions, have recently been …

For molecules to be used as components in molecular machines, methods that couple
individual molecules to external energy sources and that selectively excite motion in a given …

Gears are microfabricated down to diameters of a few micrometres. Natural macromolecular
motors, of tens of nanometres in diameter, also show gear effects. At a smaller scale, the …

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 …

The design of a single-molecule machine consisting of functional components requires a
detailed understanding of its mechanical motion,. The scanning tunnelling microscope …

The design of artificial molecular machines,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, often takes inspiration from
macroscopic machines,,,,,,. However, the parallels between the two systems are often only …

The bottom-up fabrication of nanoscopic devices such as gears,[1] ratchets,[2] turnstiles,[3]
switches,[4] and elevators [5] continues to attract much attention. The interest in molecular …

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 …

Towards artificial muscles at the nanometric level - Chemical Communications (RSC
Publishing) DOI:10.1039/B302326P Royal Society of Chemistry View PDF VersionNext Article …

Inspired by the biomolecular motors that can be found everywhere in nature and are
essential to numerous processes of life, nanoscientists have been developing artificial …