Congratulations! Scientists from France, UK & the Netherlands awarded with the #NobelPrize for their accomplishments in #nanotechnology http://goo.gl/tcN7ox
BREAKING NEWS
The 2016 #NobelPrize in Chemistry is awarded to
Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Sir J. Fraser Stoddart and Bernard L. Feringa
“for the design and synthesis of molecular machines”
They developed the world’s smallest machines
The 2016 Chemistry Laureates are awarded for their development of molecular machines that are a thousand times thinner than a hair strand. They succeeded in linking molecules together to design everything from a tiny lift to motors and miniscule muscles.
The groundbreaking steps taken by Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Fraser Stoddart and Ben Feringa in developing molecular machinery have resulted in a toolbox of chemical structures that are used by researchers around the world to build increasingly advanced creations. One of the most striking examples is a molecular robot that can grasp and connect amino acids, built in 2013.
Other researchers have connected molecular motors to long polymers, so they form an intricate web. When the molecular motors are exposed to light, they wind the polymers up into a messy bundle. In this way, light energy is stored in the molecules and, if researchers find a technique for retrieving this energy, a new kind of battery could be developed. The material also shrinks when the motors tangle the polymers, which could be used to develop sensors that react to light.
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