The Nobel prize in Chemistry 2016 was to Sauvage, Stoddart, and Feringa – It Happens Bulletin

The molecular motor is already today in the same phase as the electric motor in the 1830s. What new advances will bring the science?

Through a press release, the institute explained that, “the laureates of the Nobel peace prize of Chemical have brought to the molecular systems of the stalemate they were in and brought them to the united full of energy in which it is possible to control the movements.”

“In terms of development, the molecular motor is in the same spread that it was the electric motor in the 30′s of the NINETEENTH century, when scientists had several cranks rotating and wheels, without being aware that it would lead to electric trains, washing machines, fans and food processors”, stressed the Academy.

Jean-Pierre Sauvage, 71 years old, a teacher of the University of Strasbourg, France, is the first to have imagined these nanomachines, which it describes as a “molecular assembly capable of getting moving in a controlled way, in response to signals different: light, temperature change, etc.”.

Later, in 1991, Fraser Stoddart developed a rotaxane, a molecular architecture mechanically interlocked which consists of a molecule with the shape of a dumbbell from a gym, and showed that the ring could move around an axis molecular.

This discovery enabled him to create a ‘lift’ and a ‘muscle’ molecular.

as a child, Stoddart grew up on a family farm.

Sauvage, he said to French television that he had not anticipated.

The Chemical is the last Nobel Prize of science that delivered the Academy this year.

“I am very surprised and very happy because I share the prize with two researchers who I admire greatly,” explained the agency Swedish TT.

Bernard L. Feringa designed and synthesized a molecule that rotates in a specific direction, which means the first molecular motor. “Then people said: ‘why do we need a machine flying?’ and now we have the Boeing 747 and the Airbus”.

“In the future we will have all kinds of materials with autonomous functions…”

The molecular machines can be used for the development of new materials, sensors and energy storage systems”, stated the jury once announced the winners.

The Nobel prize Chemistry this year, got it machines tiny, nanometer-scale. In 2015, the award it was to the swede Thomas Lindahl, the american Paul Modrich, and the Turkish american Aziz Sancar for his studies on the mechanism of DNA repair.

In that sense, needless to reaffirm the value of the work of these seven giants of the laboratory that began on Monday with the biologist japanese Yoshinori Ohsumi, who was granted the Nobel Medicine to discover autophagy -a mechanism that allows cells to recycle their components and to remodel itself or self-destruct, according to the conditions they face-has allowed it to advance, among other things, in the understanding of aging and in the management of diseases such as cancer.