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SUBMITTER: Majumdar A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8279737 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Majumdar Atreya A Jansen Thomas L C TLC
The journal of physical chemistry letters 20210607 23
Molecular motors that exhibit controlled unidirectional rotation provide great prospects for many types of applications, including nanorobotics. Existing rotational motors have two key components: photoisomerization around a π-bond followed by a thermally activated helical inversion, the latter being the rate-determining step. We propose an alternative molecular system in which the rotation is caused by the electric coupling of chromophores. This is used to engineer the excited state energy surf ...[more]