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Linear artificial molecular muscles
Liu, Yi,Flood, Amar H.,Bonvallet, Paul A.,Vignon, Scott A.,Northrop, Brian H.,Tseng, Hsian-Rong,Jeppesen, Jan O.,Huang, Tony J.,Brough, Branden,Baller, Marko,Magonov, Sergei,Solares, Santiago D.,Goddard, William A.,Ho, Chih-Ming,Fraser Stoddart
, p. 9745 - 9759 (2005)
Two switchable, palindromically constituted bistable [3]rotaxanes have been designed and synthesized with a pair of mechanically mobile rings encircling a single dumbbell. These designs are reminiscent of a "molecular muscle" for the purposes of amplifyin
