Locked movement in molecular motor and rotor

Thursday, June 1, 2017 - 16:51 in Psychology & Sociology

For a motor to power machinery, the local motion has to be translated into the ordered movement of other parts of the system. Organic chemists have now produced a light driven rotary motor in which the rotary movement is locked to that of a secondary naphthalene rotor.

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