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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