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Nature Materials 7, 431–432 (1 June 2008) | doi:10.1038/nmat2192

Molecular Machines: Nanoscale gadgets

Miguel A. Garcia-Garibay

Few areas of science attract as broad a spectrum of disciplines as the field of molecular motors, molecular machines and functional nanostructures. This could be easily appreciated at a symposium on this topic held during the 2008 Materials Research Society Spring meeting in San Francisco, which brought together physicists, chemists, biologists, materials scientists and engineers.