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A small molecule that walks non-directionally along a track without external intervention
Campana, Araceli G.,Carlone, Armando,Chen, Kai,Dryden, David T. F.,Leigh, David A.,Lewandowska, Urszula,Mullen, Kathleen M.
, p. 5480 - 5483 (2012/07/14)
Charge of the light brigade: A molecule is able to walk back and forth upon a five-foothold pentaethylenimine track without external intervention. The 1D random walk is highly processive (mean step number 530) and exchange takes place between adjacent amine groups in a stepwise fashion. The walker performs a simple task whilst walking: quenching of the fluorescence of an anthracene group sited at one end of the track. Copyright
