{"id":30813,"date":"2016-10-06T00:46:28","date_gmt":"2016-10-06T07:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/molecular-nanotechnologists-win-nobel-prize-in-chemistry-for-developing-molecular-machines"},"modified":"2017-06-04T09:23:57","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T16:23:57","slug":"molecular-nanotechnologists-win-nobel-prize-in-chemistry-for-developing-molecular-machines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/molecular-nanotechnologists-win-nobel-prize-in-chemistry-for-developing-molecular-machines","title":{"rendered":"Molecular Nanotechnologists win Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing molecular machines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/molecular-nanotechnologists-win-nobel-prize-in-chemistry-for-developing-molecular-machines.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nobelprize.org\/nobel_prizes\/chemistry\/laureates\/2016\/press.html\" target=\"blank\">Three pioneers in the development of nanomachines, made of moving molecules, were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry on Wednesday.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bernard Feringa was the first person to develop a molecular motor; in 1999 he got a molecular rotor blade to spin continually in the same direction. Using molecular motors, he has rotated a glass cylinder that is 10,000 times bigger than the motor and also designed a nanocar.<\/p>\n<p>A tiny lift, artificial muscles and miniscule motors. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2016 is awarded to Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Sir J. Fraser Stoddart and Bernard L. Feringa for their design and production of molecular machines. They have developed molecules with controllable movements, which can perform a task when energy is added.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/2016\/10\/molecular-nanotechnologists-win-nobel.html\">http:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/2016\/10\/molecular-nanotechnologists-win-nobel.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three pioneers in the development of nanomachines, made of moving molecules, were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry on Wednesday. Bernard Feringa was the first person to develop a molecular motor; in 1999 he got a molecular rotor blade to spin continually in the same direction. Using molecular motors, he has rotated a glass cylinder [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30813"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60162,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30813\/revisions\/60162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}