Unidirectional rotation of micromotors on water powered by pH-controlled disassembly of chiral molecular crystals

Abstract Biological and synthetic molecular motors, fueled by various physical and chemical means, can perform asymmetric linear and rotary motions that are inherently related to their asymmetric shapes. Here, we describe silver-organic micro-complexes of random shapes that exhibit macroscopic unidi...

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Main Authors: Itai Carmeli, Celine M. Bounioux, Philip Mickel, Mark B. Richardson, Yael Templeman, Joel M. P. Scofield, Greg G. Qiao, Brian Ashley Rosen, Yelena Yusupov, Louisa Meshi, Nicolas H. Voelcker, Oswaldo Diéguez, Touvia Miloh, Petr Král, Hagai Cohen, Shachar E. Richter
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2023-05-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-38308-9