Macroscopic transport by synthetic molecular machines

Nature Materials

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 704-710

  Berná, José ^a   Leigh, David A ^a   Lubomska, Monika ^b   Mendoza, Sandra M ^b   Pérez, Emilio M ^a   Rudolf, Petra ^b   Teobaldi, Gilberto ^c   Zerbetto, Francesco ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PARAFFINS; SURFACE TENSION;

ARTIFICIAL STRUCTURES; MOLECULAR MACHINES; MOLECULAR NANOTECHNOLOGY;

MOLECULAR PHYSICS;

MOLECULAR MOTOR; NANOMATERIAL; ROTAXANE;

ARTICLE; BIOMIMETICS; CHEMISTRY; EVALUATION; MATERIALS TESTING; MECHANICAL STRESS; METHODOLOGY; MOTION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SURFACE PROPERTY;

BIOMIMETICS; MATERIALS TESTING; MOLECULAR MOTOR PROTEINS; MOTION; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; ROTAXANES; STRESS, MECHANICAL; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 26944493106     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat1455     Document Type: Article

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