Let’s motor through the fog of molecular machine terminology, not only by defining our own words clearly, but by embracing the coexistence of multiple meanings in a rational and structured manner.
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Bruns, C.J. Moving forward in the semantic soup of artificial molecular machine taxonomy. Nat. Nanotechnol. 17, 1231–1234 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41565-022-01247-5
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