Artificial molecular motors

S Kassem, T van Leeuwen, AS Lubbe… - Chemical Society …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
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 …

New horizons for catalysis disclosed by supramolecular chemistry

G Olivo, G Capocasa, D Del Giudice… - Chemical Society …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
The adoption of a supramolecular approach in catalysis promises to address a number of
unmet challenges, ranging from activity (unlocking of novel reaction pathways) to selectivity …

[HTML][HTML] Artificial molecular machines

S Erbas-Cakmak, DA Leigh, CT McTernan… - Chemical …, 2015 - ACS Publications
The widespread use of molecular machines in biology has long suggested that great
rewards could come from bridging the gap between synthetic molecular systems and the …

Nanoarchitectonics for dynamic functional materials from atomic‐/molecular‐level manipulation to macroscopic action

K Ariga, J Li, J Fei, Q Ji, JP Hill - Advanced Materials, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Objects in all dimensions are subject to translational dynamism and dynamic mutual
interactions, and the ability to exert control over these events is one of the keys to the …

Towards artificial molecular factories from framework-embedded molecular machines

S Krause, BL Feringa - Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2020 - nature.com
Controlling cooperativity, synchronization, amplification and translation of intermolecular
and intramolecular dynamics over different length scales for applications in stimuli …

Controlling motion at the nanoscale: rise of the molecular machines

JM Abendroth, OS Bushuyev, PS Weiss, CJ Barrett - ACS nano, 2015 - ACS Publications
As our understanding and control of intra-and intermolecular interactions evolve, ever more
complex molecular systems are synthesized and assembled that are capable of performing …

Engineering precise sequence-defined polymers for advanced functions

Q Shi, Z Deng, M Hou, X Hu, S Liu - Progress in Polymer Science, 2023 - Elsevier
Unlike natural macromolecules (eg, nucleic acids and proteins) possessing precisely
defined molar mass, chain sequence, chirality, and topology, synthetic polymers are typically …

Ratcheting synthesis

S Borsley, JM Gallagher, DA Leigh… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
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 …

Defining the field of sequence‐controlled polymers

JF Lutz - Sequence‐Controlled Polymers, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Over the last ten years, the development of synthetic polymers containing controlled
monomer sequences has become a prominent topic in fundamental and applied polymer …

Active template synthesis

R Jamagne, MJ Power, ZH Zhang, G Zango… - Chemical Society …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
The active template synthesis of mechanically interlocked molecular architectures exploits
the dual ability of various structural elements (metals or, in the case of metal-free active …