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Teaser, summary, work performed and final results

Periodic Reporting for period 2 - MMDYNASYS (Molecular Motors, powering dynamic functional molecular systems)

Teaser

The MMDYNASYS project is focused on building molecular unidirectional light, redox and catalytically driven molecular motors into complex molecular systems to generate dynamic control over the behaviour of materials and systems. A key challenge overcome in this period is to...

Summary

The MMDYNASYS project is focused on building molecular unidirectional light, redox and catalytically driven molecular motors into complex molecular systems to generate dynamic control over the behaviour of materials and systems. A key challenge overcome in this period is to develop water soluble/compatible molecular motors that has been used achieve muscle like function in a soft material and to establish unidirectional motion of molecular motors in the confines of a metal organic frameworks (named MotoMOFs by the journal Nature Nanotechnology). The amplification of molecular motion/action to the macroscopic scale is a key challenge in soft functional materials.

Work performed

A key challenge overcome in this period is to develop water soluble/compatible molecular motors that has been used achieve muscle like function in a soft material and to establish unidirectional motion of molecular motors in the confines of a metal organic frameworks (named MotoMOFs by the journal Nature Nanotechnology). The amplification of molecular motion/action to the macroscopic scale is a key challenge in soft functional materials since it allows us to control macroscopic movement using stimuli such as electricity, ion concentration changes or light.

Final results

Highlight results include generating muscle like function in a soft material that assembles from molecular units by adding specific salts such as CaCl2 and observing the motion (rotation) at a single molecule level.

Website & more info

More info: http://benferinga.com.