Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have developed a supramolecular-scale artificial motor powered by a ...

The first molecular motor created by Ben Feringa was described 25 years ago (on 9-9-1999) in the journal Nature. It brought ...

Professor Ben Feringa of the University of Groningen, along with two colleagues, won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for ...

This wind-up motor is a tiny ribbon made of special molecules ... the direction of rotation -- clockwise or anti-clockwise -- can be influenced by the structure of the molecular building blocks of the ...

Their work using evolved Feringa-type molecular motors destroyed membranes of cancer cells. This process uses infrared light to penetrate tissue without invasive and sometimes dangerous surgery. It ...

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David Julius and Wendy Yue have discovered a natural mechanism that could help reduce scarring after a spinal cord injury.

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Feringa had built a light-driven motor comprising one single molecule. The scientific article describing this molecular motor was published 25 years ago, on 9 September 1999, in Nature.