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1 Department of Organic Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru 560 012, IN
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Current Science, Vol 111, No 8 (2016), Pagination: 1289-1292
Abstract
The 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry is conferred on three organic chemists, Jean- Pierre Sauvage, J. F. Stoddart and Ben Feringa, who share the Prize for spear heading a new area of chemistry that converges the ideas of molecular synthesis with the principles operating in materials and biology. The trio has contributed immensely in the past 2-3 decades to establish a new direction that relies on exploiting the forces, in the form of chemical energy, in order to conduct a work at the expense of the energy, and the work being conducted at the molecular level, the tiniest possible machine measuring few nanometers in a length scale.
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