Nanomechanical and chemical aspects of rotation in multicomponent nanorotors

生物机器和技术机器通常只有在原型不同组件的相互作用下才能发挥作用。因此，自然界已经开发了ATP合酶，驱动蛋白和相关的复杂系统的基础上的超分子异质聚集体。然而，与它们的生物分子原型不同，化学世界中几乎所有的分子机器或装置都是基于共价或拓扑连接的构建单元而开发的。利用我们小组在多组分纳米转子方面的最新成就，我们希望将其机械和化学性能提高到新的新兴功能水平。这项工作的最终目标是利用nanomechanical方面的旋转有目的的催化过程，评估相关的旋转，并运行多组分机械在平衡条件下。因此，这项研究应该为旋转系统的化学开辟新的视角。

Biological and technical machines usually do only function due to the interplay of archetypically different components. As a consequence, nature has developed ATP synthase, kinesin and related complex systems on the basis of supramolecular heterocomponent aggregates. However, different from their biomolecular archetypes almost all molecular machines or devices in the chemical world have been developed on the basis of covalently or topologically linked building blocks. Capitalizing on latest achievements from our group with regard to multicomponent nanorotors we want to raise their mechanical and chemical properties to a new emergent level of functionality with each additional component. A final goal of this work is to utilize the nanomechanical aspects of rotation purposefully for catalytic processes, to evaluate correlated rotation, and to run multicomponent machinery in out-of-equilibrium conditions. This research should therefore open new perspectives for the chemistry of rotating systems.