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ArticleAngewandte Chemie (International ed. in English)2023

Autonomous Non-Equilibrium Self-Assembly and Molecular Movements Powered by Electrical Energy.

Giulio Ragazzon, Marco Malferrari, Arturo Arduini, Andrea Secchi, Stefania Rapino, Serena Silvi, Alberto Credi

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Article in Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Bioelectrochemically Powered Out-of-Equilibrium Hydrogels Enable Feedback-Regulated Functions.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026
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  6. Chirality Makes or Breaks Chemically Driven Self-Assembly.Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Giulio RagazzonInstitut de Science et d'Ingégnierie Supramoléculaires (ISIS) UMR 7006, University of Strasbourg, CNRS, 8 allée Gaspard Monge, 67000, Strasbourg, France.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7183-2985
Marco MalferrariDipartimento di Chimica "Giacomo Ciamician", Università di Bologna, via Selmi 2, 40126, Bologna, Italy.
Arturo ArduiniDipartimento di Scienze Chimiche, della Vita e della Sostenibilità Ambientale, Università di Parma, Parco Area delle Scienze 17/A, 43124, Parma, Italy.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2774-0095
Andrea SecchiDipartimento di Scienze Chimiche, della Vita e della Sostenibilità Ambientale, Università di Parma, Parco Area delle Scienze 17/A, 43124, Parma, Italy.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4045-961X
Stefania RapinoDipartimento di Chimica "Giacomo Ciamician", Università di Bologna, via Selmi 2, 40126, Bologna, Italy.
Serena SilviDipartimento di Chimica "Giacomo Ciamician", Università di Bologna, via Selmi 2, 40126, Bologna, Italy.
Alberto CrediCLAN-Center for Light-Activated Nanostructures (CLAN), Università di Bologna and Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, via Gobetti 101, 40129, Bologna, Italy.

Funding

European Research Council ERC AdG n. 692981Interdisciplinary Thematic Institute ITI-CSC ANR-10-IDEX-0002
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The ability to exploit energy autonomously is one of the hallmarks of life. Mastering such processes in artificial nanosystems can open technological opportunities. In the last decades, light- and chemically driven autonomous systems have been developed in relation to conformational motion and self-assembly, mostly in relation to molecular motors. In contrast, despite electrical energy being an attractive energy source to power nanosystems, its autonomous harnessing has received little attention. Herein we consider an operation mode that allows the autonomous exploitation of electrical energy by a self-assembling system. Threading and dethreading motions of a pseudorotaxane take place autonomously in solution, powered by the current flowing between the electrodes of a scanning electrochemical microscope. The underlying autonomous energy ratchet mechanism drives the self-assembly steps away from equilibrium with a higher energy efficiency compared to other autonomous systems. The strategy is general and might be extended to other redox-driven systems.

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CalixareneElectrochemistryMolecular MachinesNon-Equilibrium ProcessesSECM

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PMID36422473
PMCPMC10107654

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