All chemists are familiar with the idea that, at equilibrium steady state, the relative
concentrations of species present in a system are predicted by the corresponding …

Non‐equilibrium chemical systems underpin multiple domains of contemporary interest,
including supramolecular chemistry, molecular machines, systems chemistry, prebiotic …

Biology operates through autonomous chemically fuelled molecular machinery, including
rotary motors such as adenosine triphosphate synthase and the bacterial flagellar motor …

Cells process information in a manner reminiscent of a Turing machine, autonomously
reading data from molecular tapes and translating it into outputs,. Randomly processive …

The year 2022 marks the 30th anniversary of the first reports of polyrotaxanes in the
scientific literature. During the past three decades, many combinations of molecular rings …

Synthetic chemistry has traditionally relied on reactions between reactants of high chemical
potential and transformations that proceed energetically downhill to either a global or local …

Aiming at the construction of novel soft actuators through the amplified motions of molecular
machines at the nanoscale, the design and synthesis of a new family of photoresponsive …

We report a new class of synthetic molecular pumps that use a stepwise information ratchet
mechanism to achieve the kinetic gating required to sequester their macrocyclic substrates …

Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) present one of the most interesting collections of
properties among nanomaterials. Some sort of chemical modification of SWNTs is often …

Biomolecular machines are driven by information ratchet mechanisms, where kinetic
asymmetry in the machine's chemomechanical cycle of fuel-to-waste catalysis induces net …