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Nanoscale gadgets

Nature Materials volume 7, pages 431–432 (2008)Cite this article

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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Figure 1: The induction of supramolecular chirality in a liquid-crystalline phase.

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Figure 2: Stimuli-responsive nanocontainers.

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