Biopolymer: A sustainable material for food and medical applications

J Baranwal, B Barse, A Fais, GL Delogu, A Kumar - Polymers, 2022 - mdpi.com
Biopolymers are a leading class of functional material suitable for high-value applications
and are of great interest to researchers and professionals across various disciplines …

Photochromism of diarylethene molecules and crystals: memories, switches, and actuators

M Irie, T Fukaminato, K Matsuda, S Kobatake - Chemical Reviews, 2014 - ACS Publications
Photochromism is defined as a reversible transformation of a chemical species between two
isomers having different absorption spectra induced in one or both directions by …

[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 …

Stochastic thermodynamics, fluctuation theorems and molecular machines

U Seifert - Reports on progress in physics, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
Stochastic thermodynamics as reviewed here systematically provides a framework for
extending the notions of classical thermodynamics such as work, heat and entropy …

[PDF][PDF] Mechanically interlocked molecules (MIMs)-molecular shuttles, switches, and machines

JF Stoddart - Angew. Chem. Int. Ed, 2017 - nobelprize.org
One of the most influential books ever to have been written in the field of chemistry is e
Nature of the Chemical Bond by Linus Pauling [1], the first edition of which was published in …

From molecular to supramolecular electronics

H Chen, J Fraser Stoddart - Nature Reviews Materials, 2021 - nature.com
Using individual molecules as conducting bridges for electrons offers opportunities when
investigating quantum phenomena that are not readily accessible from experiments …

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 …

The art of building small: from molecular switches to motors (Nobel Lecture)

BL Feringa - Angewandte Chemie-International Edition, 2017 - research.rug.nl
A journey into the nano-world: The ability to design, use and control motor-like functions at
the molecular level sets the stage for numerous dynamic molecular systems. In his Nobel …

Dissipative DNA nanotechnology

E Del Grosso, E Franco, LJ Prins, F Ricci - Nature Chemistry, 2022 - nature.com
DNA nanotechnology has emerged as a powerful tool to precisely design and control
molecular circuits, machines and nanostructures. A major goal in this field is to build devices …

Dynamic DNA nanotechnology using strand-displacement reactions

DY Zhang, G Seelig - Nature chemistry, 2011 - nature.com
The specificity and predictability of Watson–Crick base pairing make DNA a powerful and
versatile material for engineering at the nanoscale. This has enabled the construction of a …