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Cover Picture: Muscle‐like Supramolecular Polymers: Integrated Motion from Thousands of Molecular Machines (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 50/2012)
Author(s) -
Du Guangyan,
Moulin Emilie,
Jouault Nicolas,
Buhler Eric,
Giuseppone Nicolas
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.201208497
Subject(s) - molecular machine , supramolecular chemistry , polymer , quantum dot , molecular motor , cover (algebra) , molecule , nanotechnology , materials science , chemistry , crystallography , physics , nuclear magnetic resonance , mechanical engineering , engineering , organic chemistry
Artificial muscles can be created by using a bottom‐up approach that involves coupling the controlled motions of a very high number of molecular machines. The cover picture shows a muscular fiber from which a single‐chain supramolecular polymer made of thousands of telescopic rotaxanes emerges. In their Communication on page 12504 ff., N. Giuseppone and co‐workers show how the integrated functioning of these rotaxanes results in amplified motion. (Graphics by Mathieu Lejeune.)