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May Café Scientifique with Nicholas White
Posted by: susanvickers | May 12, 2014 | Leave a Comment
Dear Café Scientifiquers, our next café will happen on Tuesday May 27th, 7:30pm at The Railway Club. Our speaker for the evening will be Dr. Nicholas White. The title of his talk is:
The world’s smallest machines
In the last 50 years, chemists have developed the ability to produce increasingly intricate and complex molecules. One example of this is the synthesis of “interlocked molecules”: two or more separate molecules that are mechanically threaded through one another (like links of a chain). These interlocked molecules offer potential use for a range of different applications. In particular they have been developed for use as molecular machines: devices that are only a few nanometers in size, but can perform physical work in response to a stimulus (e.g. light, heat). This talk will describe the development of interlocked molecules, and explore their potential applications as nano-devices.