Chemistry Nobel Prize Winners Used Molecules To Build Tiny Machines And Cars

Meera Dolasia
2016-10-08T14:38:48-07:00

On Wednesday, October 5, Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Sir J. Fraser Stoddart, and Bernard L. Feringa won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for creating machines that are a thousand times thinner than a hair strand! What is even more impressive is that the nanomotors are not made of pistons or gears — just a handful of molecules!