Rotaxanes are dumbbell-shaped mechanically interlocked molecules in which one or more ring-shaped molecules are threaded ...

Researchers at the Nano Life Science Institute (WPI-NanoLSI) at Kanazawa University, the Institute for Molecular Science and ...

For decades, chemists believed that assembling rotaxanes required carefully designed molecular recognition between a ring and ...

A molecular model shows two macrocycles interlocked like links in a chain, with additional atoms attached on the side of one ring. This conceptual version of the catenane made by Michael Kathan and ...

The structural design of molecular machines and motors endows them with externally controlled directional motion at the molecular scale. Molecular machines based on both interlocked and ...

Researchers at the Nano Life Science Institute (WPI-NanoLSI) at Kanazawa University, the Institute for Molecular Science, and SOKENDA ...

(Nanowerk News) Artificial molecular machines, nanoscale machines consisting of a few molecules, offer the potential to transform fields involving catalysts, molecular electronics, medicines, and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Stoddart holding his Nobel lecture at the Aula Magna hall at Stockholm University in 2016 - Claudio Bresciani/Alamy Sir Fraser ...

Tiny machines built from individual molecules are moving from science fiction into working hardware, promising to reshape medicine, manufacturing, and even computing. Instead of gears and pistons, ...

Fast-scanning atomic force microscopy imaging of the molecule at two different time points shows positional shifts along the polymer chain on the left. On the right, the molecular structure of PEG ...

Scientists from the Kavli Institute of Delft University of Technology and the IMP Vienna Biocenter discovered a new property of the molecular motors that shape our chromosomes. While six years ago ...