Light-driven artificial molecular machines

Yue Bing Zheng; Qingzhen Hao; Ying-Wei Yang; Brian Kiraly; I-Kao Chiang; Tony Jun Huang

doi:10.1117/1.3489361

1 August 2010 Light-driven artificial molecular machines

Yue Bing Zheng, Qingzhen Hao, Ying-Wei Yang, Brian Kiraly, I-Kao Chiang, Tony Jun Huang

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Journal of Nanophotonics, Vol. 4, Issue 1, 042501 (August 2010). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.3489361

Abstract

Artificial molecular machines represent a growing field of nanoscience and nanotechnology. Stimulated by chemical reagents, electricity, or light, artificial molecular machines exhibit precisely controlled motion at the molecular level; with this ability molecular machines have the potential to make significant impacts in numerous engineering applications. Compared with molecular machines powered by chemical or electrical energy, light-driven molecular machines have several advantages: light can be switched much faster, work without producing chemical waste, and be used for dual purposes-inducing (writing) as well as detecting (reading) molecular motions. The following issues are significant for light-driven artificial molecular machines in the following aspects: their chemical structures, motion mechanisms, assembly and characterization on solid-state surfaces. Applications in different fields of nanotechnology such as molecular electronics, nano-electro-mechanical systems (NEMS), nanophotonics, and nanomedicine are envisaged.

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Yue Bing Zheng, Qingzhen Hao, Ying-Wei Yang, Brian Kiraly, I-Kao Chiang, and Tony Jun Huang "Light-driven artificial molecular machines," Journal of Nanophotonics 4(1), 042501 (1 August 2010). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.3489361

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Molecular machines

Molecules

Gold

Molecular assembly

Switching

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