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Single Molecular Machines and Motors brings together different approaches and strategies to design, synthesize and study single molecular machines and motors in a multidisciplinary way. Written by leading international experts, this book summarizes the advances in the field through a number of disciplines. Some contributions describe molecular chemistry such as organic, aromatics, and coordination chemistry while others address theoretical chemistry in a predictive way or through post-experimental modelling. Experimental physics with extensive use of scanning probe microscopy (STM and AFM) is discussed for examining one single molecule. This book is aimed at those who are interested in the rapidly growing field of molecular machines and motors acting and studied at the single-molecule scale. The goal of the authors and editors is to provide the reader with an up-to-date summary while also offering future perspectives on the field.
List of contents
From the Contents: Single Molecule Measurements of Synthetic Molecular Machines at Work.- An Atomistic View of DNA Dynamics and its Interaction with Small Binders: Insights from Molecular Dynamics and Principal Component Analysis.- Recent Advances in the Chemical Synthesis of Lasso Molecular Switches.- Triptycene or Subphthalocyanine Wheels and Polyaromatic Hydrocarbon Nanovehicles.
About the author
Dr Christian Joachim is First Class Director of Research at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Nanoscience group (GNS) at CEMES/CNRS Toulouse and Adjunct Professor of Nanosciences and Quantum resources at ISAE. He coordinated the EU-sponsored projects: BUN ('Bottom-up Nanomachines') and Pico-Inside and directed 2 NATO Advanced Research Workshops on Nanoscale Sciences in the early 1990s. He is currently in charge of the French Midi-Pyrenees research effort in Nanoscience (CPER Campus G. Dupouy) and of the new European Integrated Project AtMol. He is also A STAR VIP attached to IMRE to develop atomic scale technology in Singapore and WPI in charge of the Toulouse MANA satellite (MEXT Japan).
