Tiny machines built from individual molecules are moving from science fiction into working hardware, promising to reshape ...

Inside every cell, the body runs countless molecular machines so small they make viruses look huge. These microscopic systems ...

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

Sir Fraser Stoddart, who has died aged 82, was a phenomenally inventive Scottish-born scientist who shared the 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with the Frenchman Jean-Pierre Sauvage and the Dutch ...

Professor Jiawen Chen and Associate Researcher Yan Wang from South China Normal University, in collaboration with Professor ...

Rotaxanes and related molecular machines represent a rapidly developing class of mechanically interlocked molecules that have captured the interest of chemists and materials scientists alike.

Scientists have built DNA-based nanocircuits that reset with heat, enabling reusable molecular systems for tasks like cargo sorting and pattern recognition. (Nanowerk News) Though it might seem like ...

Scientists have discovered a new property of the molecular motors that shape our chromosomes. While six years ago they found that these so-called SMC motor proteins make long loops in our DNA, they ...

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 ...

Ferrocene is a key molecule for developing molecular machines. However, it readily decomposes on the surface of flat noble metal substrates, marking a significant challenge. Now researchers have ...