David Leigh, of the University of Edinburgh, and Anne-Sophie Duwez of the University of Liege, and colleagues, have now managed to extract work from a single man-made molecule. Results from the test work performed has demonstrated that man-made molecules can generate similar forces to natural molecular machines, and could help chemists to design artificial molecular machines for meaningful tasks.
Groovy huh! Can’t wait to see where this project goes from hereon out.
August 26th, 2011 6:01 pm
Congradulations David Leigh and Anne-Sophie Duwez, what a fantastic achievement! I was at Beckman Instruments for 25 years and in the 1980s we learned how to create synthetic protein molecules and even modify DNA strands. This led to the bio-technology industry of today.
Customized molecules will offer us many opportunities to achieve more in industry and medicine.
jdh
May 25th, 2012 11:19 am
Wow! I think it’s a great achievement, and I’m ashamed to admit I’ve never heard of the research in that field! But anyway, no matter how slow I am 0 my congrats and i wish the scientists further wins in their work of course!