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How might one design a nano-machine?
Trinh Xuan Hoang is currently a postdoc at Penn State University. He is also a researcher at Institute of Physics, Vietnamese Academy of Science and Technology. Dmitry.
Significant advances in laboratory techniques in tailoring and processing materials at the atomic level have resulted in nanotechnology becoming an increasingly mature field. One of the exciting goals of nanotechnology is the design of powerful nano-machines, i.e. functional entities at the nano-scale that work like macro-world machines. A simple nano-machine would be an entity that is able to switch between two distinct conformations under some kind of external perturbation. In fact, molecular switching of various kinds has been the subject of many recent studies.
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