ArticleNature nanotechnology2025
Supramolecular polymerization through rotation of light-driven molecular motors.
Article in Nature nanotechnology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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8 citing papers in PubMed.
- Protonation-Gated Orthogonal Control of Highly Efficient Molecular Motors With Broad Visible-Light Responsiveness.Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2026Article
- Tunable photofluorochromic switch driven by dynamic through-space conjugation.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Nanoarchitectonics of molecular machines, biomolecular machines, and microrobots in their collective behaviour.Chemical science · 2026Review
- Highly sensitive X-ray responsive molecular switches.Nature communications · 2026Article
- An Opto-Actuated Hydrogel for Cell Mechanoactuation and Real-Time Force Monitoring.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026Article
- Molecular motors in action at interfaces.Nature nanotechnology · 2025Article
- Photoswitchable Molecular Motor Phospholipid: Synthesis, Characterization, and Integration into Lipid Vesicles.Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids · 2025Article
- Artificial molecular motors in biological applications.Frontiers in molecular biosciences · 2024Review
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Abstract
Molecular motors can act on their environment through their unique ability to generate non-reciprocal autonomous motions at the nanoscale. Although their operating principles are now understood, artificial molecular motors have yet to demonstrate their general capacity to confer novel properties on (supra)molecular systems and materials. Here we show that amphiphilic light-driven molecular motors can adsorb onto an air‒water interface and form Langmuir monolayers upon compression. By irradiation with ultraviolet light, the surface pressure isotherms of these films reveal a drastic shift toward a smaller molecular area as a consequence of motor activation. We explain this counterintuitive phenomenon by the rotation-induced supramolecular polymerization of amphiphilic motors through a non-thermal annealing process to escape a kinetically trapped amorphous state. The effect is limited by the maximum torque the molecular motor can deliver (~10 pN nm) and leads to the formation of highly organized patterns. This serendipitous discovery highlights the opportunities offered by molecular motors to control supramolecular polymerization for the design of innovative materials.
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