>molecular nano machines http://www.vox.com/2016/10/5/13

It's apparently been here for a few decades (90's) op.

>university of groningen
Feels good to hear ur university

>>8393123
Holy shit, they gave Stoddart and Feringa a nobel prize. Both of them are incredibly based.

Yeah, you bet your ass it is. Well maybe, molecular machines are still floppy as fuck.

Stoddart's group proposed a way to build Feynman's nanoscale robotic arm for moving around individual atoms with near term synthetic chemistry:
http://pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/ArticleLanding/2012/CS/c1cs15262a

Sorry, but the life invented this 3 500 000 000 years before. It's called ATP synthase.

>>8393195
The sticky/fat fingers problems, the ways mechanical systems behave at the molecular scale, and the chemical constraints on small-molecule-sized parts mean, I think, that Drexler-style atom-by-atom nanotech will likely never be possible.

Molecule-by-molecule nanotech, though, clearly is, since biology exists.

>be physicist
>find this year's chemistry nobel prize to be more interesting that the physics one
It's a weird kind of feel

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>>8393269
>>the ways mechanical systems behave at the molecular scale
Guess what? They still behave mechanically.
Pic and link related: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/chem.201000276/abstract

Did you even read the above link by Stoddart's group?

>>atom-by-atom nanotech will likely never be possible
prove it

>>8393207
So you're saying you think this research is not groundbreaking? If only you had been on the committee that picks Nobel prize winners!

>>8393207
>computers are a pointless invention, life invented brains

>>8393207
Fuck you life. Can life operate past 125 degrees celsius?(the highest temp polymers we have work up to 250 C) Oh yeah and life took millions of years to invent wood. Synthetic chemistry invented plastics in only hundreds of years.

>tfw actually work in the field of nano/micro motors
Everyone was excited today

>>8393398
maybe, but do you know only one thing made by human which was created by itself ?

nice flea circus-tier science

sage

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>>8393123
>http://www.vox.com/2016/10/5/13171850/2016-nobel-prize-chemistry

lol in one of the last SQTs i asked the question whether its possible to have bonds go through for example a benzene ring - got no answers

guess what these guys were doing was exactly what i was looking for :O
pic related

If anyone is interested, look at kinesin monorail networks, bretty cool

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>>8393758
>reading the "Popular Information"
the synthesized molecules are much larger than benzene ring. It's hard to add bonds through a benzene ring because the space is too small.

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Stoddart is based.