Towards artificial muscles at the nanometric level.

Maria Consuelo Jimenez-Molero, Christiane Dietrich-Buchecker, Jean-Pierre Sauvage

Journal: Chemical communications (Cambridge, England) 2003

PMID: 12877470

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Abstract

The authors describe their study of molecular systems suited to the fabrication of machines and (rotory or linear) motors at the molecular level. They indicate that a future application of these molecular'muscles'could be in the area of information storage and processing.

Address: Departmento de Quimica, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Apdo 22012, Valencia 46071, Spain.

DOI: 10.1039/b302326p

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MeSH Terms: Biotechnology, Electronic Data Processing, Molecular Motor Proteins, Muscles, Nanotechnology