When will artificial molecular machines start working for us?
Friday, November 25, 2011 - 12:01
in Physics & Chemistry
Physicist Richard Feynman in his famous 1959 talk, "Plenty of Room at the Bottom," described the precise control at the atomic level promised by molecular machines of the future. More than 50 years later, synthetic molecular switches are a dime a dozen, but synthetically designed molecular machines are few and far between.