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 machines are nanoscale devices capable of performing mechanical works at
molecular level. These systems could be a single molecule or a collection of component …

Synthetic molecular machines designed to operate on materials surfaces can convert
energy into motion and they may be useful to incorporate into solid state devices. Here, we …

The unusual stability of cyclo [18] carbon arising from its aromaticity might be used to
provide the kinetic trap** needed in the design of interlocked systems. The kinetic barrier …

One approach to design electronic devices is to use molecules whose configuration can be
actively modified to control their electrical conductivity. A recent theoretical study provides a …

Periodic chains of molecular gears in which molecules couple with each other and rotate on
surfaces have been previously explored by us theoretically using ab initio simulation tools …

The manipulation and coupling of molecule gears is the first step toward realizing molecular-
scale mechanical machines. Here, we theoretically investigate the behavior of such gears …

In research on molecular machines, the flexibility of the molecules has been shown to
significantly affect the performance of such “soft” machines and thus lead to unexpected …

Molecular rotors are one of the building blocks of molecular machines and they are nano-
sized with mechanically rotating moieties. Among them, intermeshing triptycenes with a gear …

Driven by a high-speed rotating electric field (E-field), molecular motors with polar groups
may perform a unidirectional, repetitive, and GHz frequency rotation and thus offer potential …