Molecular Motors: Their Varieties, Present State of Research, Applications, and Perspectives
A special issue of Micromachines (ISSN 2072-666X). This special issue belongs to the section "C：Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2022) | Viewed by 593
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Interests: computational chemistry; density functional theory; porphyrins; graphenes; fullerenes; nanoparticles
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Dear Colleagues,
Modern society is based on using a vast variety of motors, and consequently, human-made motors have become the most widely used machines today. Looking at natural processes, we, in turn, can witness an amazing variety of biological molecular motors and machines which operate at the nanoscale with high efficiency. Analogous to macroscopic motors, molecular motors convert chemical, photochemical, or thermal energy into mechanical motion and thus perform astonishingly versatile dynamic functions in biomaterials and complex biological systems. Based on this excellent source of inspiration for researchers in their endeavor to design novel and efficient synthetic molecular motors that would be able to exist in a wide range of structures and conditions and fulfill various functions in materials well beyond natural systems, impressive progress toward development of artificial molecular machines has been made in the past decades. Accordingly, this Special Issue seeks to showcase research papers and review articles that focus on developments in the area of molecular motors, considering the present state of their research, their types, and problems which need to be overcome in their design, their applications, and future perspectives in this field.
We look forward to receiving your submissions.
Prof. Dr. Aleksey Kuznetsov
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Molecular motors
- Molecular machines
- Synthetic approaches
- Nanoscale
- Energy conversion
- Applications
