Nature has many nanoscale molecular motors. The direct observation of rotary motion of F1-ATP synthase has been achieved. However, visualizing rotation of a synthetic molecular motor  remains a major challenge.Here we describe a highly functionalized light-driven molecular motor. The stator can be attached to a surface and the rotor is connected via a long rigid arm to a fluorescent group that is used for visualization.

Visualization of the rotary motion of a molecular motor

243rd National Meeting (2012)

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