Among them, light-triggered molecular motors are a category of photochemical switches with two parts that produce unidirectional mechanical motion at the nanoscale, on demand, upon external stimuli.

The molecular motor is made up of two identical halves, linked by a double carbon-carbon bond that acts as the axle. By sequentially exposing the molecule to UV-light and heat, unidirectional ...

The first molecular motor created by Ben Feringa was described 25 years ago (on 9-9-1999) in the journal Nature. It brought Feringa a 1/3 share in the 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Up till now GTP was thought to be not used for mechanical action like molecular motors, but recent research by Anupam Singh and colleagues in ... (acting as switches or timers), ...

Scientists from Delft, Vienna, and Lausanne discovered that the protein machines that shape our DNA can switch direction.

Unidirectional rotating molecular motors dynamically interact with adsorbed proteins to direct the fate of mesenchymal stem cells. Science Advances , 2020; 6 (5): eaay2756 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aay2756 ...

Molecular machines can already act as switches, shuttles, motors, or pumps, but most only work in solution, where it’s difficult to coordinate their activity. To help the minute gadgets perform ...

The novel molecular motor consists of DNA – genetic material. The researchers used the DNA origami method to assemble the motor from DNA molecules. This method was invented by Paul Rothemund in 2006 ...

Posted: Dec 04, 2017: Humidity switches molecular diode off and on (Nanowerk News) In 2016, Ben Feringa received the Nobel Prize—with Stoddard and Sauvage— for developing molecular motors.His work ...

Artificial molecular switches and machines have undergone rapid advances over the past several decades. Particularly, artificial molecular motors are highly attractive from the viewpoint of ...