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August 16, 2013
Jason Woolford |
A flexible future for robotics A team at the US Air Force Research Laboratory in Ohio, have fabricated a series of cantilevers made from azobenzene liquid crystal polymer networks that can twist and coil, powered only by a change in the polarity and intensity of an external light source. |
Chemistry World
June 12, 2008
Michael Gross |
Light Drives Plastic Motor Chemists in Japan have built a rotary motor driven purely by light shining onto a polymer film. |
Chemistry World
January 2010
Philip Ball |
Welcome to the machine Molecular machines have promised so much but are they more whimsical than technical? |
Chemistry World
September 30, 2010
James Urquhart |
Weightlifting crystals Japanese researchers have created a co-crystal that reversibly bends like human muscle when exposed to ultraviolet and visible light. |
Chemistry World
August 22, 2011
Jon Cartwright |
Manmade molecular machine goes to work Manmade molecules can generate similar forces to natural molecular machines, and could help chemists to design artificial molecular machines for meaningful tasks. |
Reactive Reports
Issue 33
David Bradley |
The Miniature Rotarians Tiny interlocking wheels are the components of a miniscule molecular rotor designed and built by UK chemists. The submicroscopic invention offers a new motor-like component for those hoping to build nanotechnology from the bottom up. |
Chemistry World
April 9, 2014
Harriet Brewerton |
Pumping gone soft In nature many mechanical processes are carried out using soft materials that are nevertheless highly durable, efficient and capable of deforming and returning to their original shape in complex ways, for example the heart. |
Chemistry World
September 1, 2013
Laura Howes |
Water acts as a lubricant for molecular machines Small shuttles and wheels on axles made from single molecules can be sped up with a small amount of water. |
Chemistry World
July 24, 2009
Nina Notman |
Chiral isotropic liquids from achiral molecules Boomerang-shaped liquid crystal phase molecules that don't exhibit 'handedness' (chirality) have been found to form unusual chiral structures that spontaneously separate into left- and right-handed domains. |
Chemistry World
March 8, 2012
David Bradley |
Light-sensitive shape-shifters are swell gels Polymer chemists have successfully emulated the natural shape-shifting abilities of biological tissues, which could allow them to develop a new range of functional materials that change shape reversibly in response to particular stimuli. |
Chemistry World
December 11, 2008
Hayley Birch |
Protein threading paves the way for nanomachines A team of Dutch and Italian researchers has discovered how proteins are threaded through pores in cell membranes. |
Chemistry World
March 27, 2014
Simon Hadlington |
Popcorn-like explosion of single crystals explained Chemists have created single crystals of metal coordination complexes that explode violently when exposed to UV light, leaping high into the air. |
Chemistry World
August 16, 2010
Carol Stanier |
Nanosprings go for gold Squeezing gold nanowires inside a polymer case causes them to coil up into tiny springs, researchers in Singapore have found. |
Chemistry World
November 24, 2006
Richard Van Noorden |
Cooking up Nano-Fusilli Here's a new twist on nanotubes: chemists have found a set of organic molecules that spontaneously assemble themselves into a helical spiral with a hollow core. |
Chemistry World
September 30, 2011
Simon Hadlington |
Solving a Tangled Polymer Problem Being able to predict how polymer chain interact could help to produce plastics with tailor made properties. |
Reactive Reports
May 2007
David Bradley |
Meeting of Molecular Movie Stars New footage confirms Linus Pauling's theory of chemical bonding proposed half a century ago, and could help explain molecular recognition processes important throughout supramolecular chemistry and molecular biology. |
Chemistry World
May 2011 |
Column: In the pipeline Molecular biology, physics, materials science, physiology, even pure mathematics is a neighbor, and these neighbors are usually reached through a zone of interdisciplinary stuff that's rather hard to define. So who counts as a chemist? |
Chemistry World
August 8, 2014
Jennifer Newton |
Graphene springs into action Researchers in China are hoping to expand the unconventional applications of graphene with their introduction of graphene springs that can function as actuators. |
Chemistry World
June 1, 2010
Simon Hadlington |
Structural order gained over conducting polymer Scientists in Canada and the US have shown how it is possible to assemble ordered arrays of short chains of a commercially important conducting polymer on a metal surface. |
Chemistry World
July 6, 2015
Tim Wogan |
Novel compounds make light work of trapping carbon dioxide A new set of compounds that can be reversibly switched between crystalline and amorphous isomers by light has been developed by researchers in Italy. |
Chemistry World
October 11, 2007
Jonathan Edwards |
'Tuneable' Polymer Can Separate Anything An international team of scientists have made a polymer with pores which can be fine-tuned to speedily separate different small molecules -- with applications ranging from carbon capture to fuel cells. |
Chemistry World
September 15, 2011
James Mitchell Crow |
Polymer Side Chains on the Slide Researchers may now be able to create rotaxane polymers whose properties alter in response to chemical stimuli. |
