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Nature Materials 7, 431 - 432 (2008)
doi:10.1038/nmat2192

Molecular Machines: Nanoscale gadgets

Miguel A. Garcia-Garibay1

  1. Miguel A. Garcia-Garibay is in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095-1569, USA.
    e-mail: mgg@chem.ucla.edu


Meeting their biological counterparts halfway, artificial molecular machines embedded in liquid crystals, crystalline solids and mesoporous materials are poised to meet the demands of the next generation of functional materials.

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