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Nobel Prize 2016
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has made its final decision to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2016 to Jean-Pierre Sauvage( University of Strasbourg, France), Sir J. Fraser Stoddart( Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA) and Bernard L. Feringa University of Groningen, the Netherlands " for the design and synthesis of molecular machines ".
They developed the world ' s smallest machines A tiny lift, artificial muscles and minuscule motors. They developed molecules with governable movements, which can do a task Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Fraser Stoddart, Ben Feringa when energy is added. The advancement of computing reveals how the miniaturization of technology can lead to an uprising. The 2016 Nobel Laureates in Chemistry have shrunk machines and taken chemistry to a new dimension. The first step towards a molecular machine was taken by Jean-Pierre Sauvage in 1983, when he succeeded in connecting two ring-shaped molecules together to form a chain, called a catenane. Normally, molecules are linked by strong covalent bonds in which the atoms share electrons, but in the chain, they were instead linked by a freer mechanical bond. For a machine to be able to perform a task it must consist parts that can move relative to each other. The two linked rings satisfied exactly this requirement. The second step was taken by Fraser Stoddart in 1991, when he developed a rotaxane. He eased a molecular ring onto a thin molecular axle and verified that the ring was able to move