Micro/nano functional devices fabricated by additive manufacturing

Z Huang, G Shao, L Li - Progress in Materials Science, 2023 - Elsevier
Micro/nano functional devices featuring deep integration, intelligence, and miniaturization
have attracted considerable attention in frontier areas of research, such as micro/nano …

Photoresponsive Supramolecular Polymers: From Light‐Controlled Small Molecules to Smart Materials

F Xu, BL Feringa - Advanced Materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Photoresponsive supramolecular polymers are well‐organized assemblies based on highly
oriented and reversible noncovalent interactions containing photosensitive molecules as (co …

Digital photoprogramming of liquid-crystal superstructures featuring intrinsic chiral photoswitches

Z Zheng, H Hu, Z Zhang, B Liu, M Li, DH Qu, H Tian… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Dynamic patterning of soft materials in a fully reversible and programmable manner with
light enables applications in anti-counterfeiting, displays and labelling technology. However …

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 …

Self-assembled liquid crystal architectures for soft matter photonics

LL Ma, CY Li, JT Pan, YE Ji, C Jiang, R Zheng… - Light: Science & …, 2022 - nature.com
Self-assembled architectures of soft matter have fascinated scientists for centuries due to
their unique physical properties originated from controllable orientational and/or positional …

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 …

Design of collective motions from synthetic molecular switches, rotors, and motors

D Dattler, G Fuks, J Heiser, E Moulin, A Perrot… - Chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Precise control over molecular movement is of fundamental and practical importance in
physics, biology, and chemistry. At nanoscale, the peculiar functioning principles and the …

Molecular pumps and motors

Y Feng, M Ovalle, JSW Seale, CK Lee… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Pumps and motors are essential components of the world as we know it. From the complex
proteins that sustain our cells, to the mechanical marvels that power industries, much we …

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 develo** …