Interlocked Molecules, Molecular Machines, Motors and Muscles
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2018) | Viewed by 22649
Special Issue Editor
Interests: molecular machines; molecular muscles; interlocked molecules; rotaxanes; lasso; double-lasso; glycorotaxanes; peptides; template driven reaction
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Dear Colleagues,
The Nobel Prize for Chemistry, 2016, awarded to Jean-Pierre Sauvage, James Fraser Stoddart and Bernard Lucas Feringa, has contributed to highlighting the research field of molecular machines. Despite the numerous appealing and very sophisticated examples of biomolecular machines that one can find in nature, and which are essential for life, synthetic laboratory-made molecular machines are still in their infancy. Since the first interlocked molecular machine was described in 1994, numerous systems of stimuli-responsive molecular machinery and motors have been reported around the world. The possibility to change, with control, the properties of a molecule, depending on the machinery, confers growing interest for these intriguing molecules in a wide range of fields, such as nanomaterials or biology.
This Special Issue aims at covering the field of interlocked molecules, molecular machines, motors, and muscles. Researchers in these fields are, therefore, warmly invited to propose relevant state-of-the-art reviews, perspectives, and research papers to be published in this Special Issue of Molecules.
Dr. Frédéric Coutrot
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- molecular machine
- molecular motor
- molecular muscle
- molecular shuttle
- molecular switch
- molecular device
- interlocked molecule
- templated reaction
- molecular station
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