lecture 17, 2004 - Indian Institute of Technology Madras Nanomachines Feynman – “There is plenty...

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Molecular Nanomachines Feynman – “There is plenty of room in the bottom” Bottom-Up approach Lecture 17 Ref: M. Gomez-Lopez and J. Fraser Stoddart, in nanostructured Materials and Nanotechnology, Hari Sigh Nalwa (Ed). Academic Press, New York, 2002.

Transcript of lecture 17, 2004 - Indian Institute of Technology Madras Nanomachines Feynman – “There is plenty...

Molecular Nanomachines

Feynman – “There is plenty of room in the bottom”

Bottom-Up approach

Lecture 17

Ref: M. Gomez-Lopez and J. Fraser Stoddart, in nanostructuredMaterials and Nanotechnology, Hari Sigh Nalwa (Ed). Academic Press, New York, 2002.

Gordon E. Moore observed that at our rate of technological development and advances in the semiconductor industry, the number of transistors on integrated circuits (a rough measure of computer processing power) doubles every 18 months. We should expect thatin 10 years computers will be about 100 times more powerful than they are today.

Writing

Erase

Reading

Switch

Molecular brake

Conformational changes

Configurational change

Problem of side reactions

Problem: Thermal re-isomerisation

Chiroptical switches

Colourless Coloured

Photochemical changes

Written state

Permanent storage

Colourless Coloured

Combining photo/electro/biochemistry

Use of metal complexes

Photochemically induced isomerisation

On-Off fluorescence

Fluor-spacer-receptor methods

Complexationswitching

Bipyridyl – FeIIHydroxamate - FeIII

Translocation of cations

Photoswitchable complexation

Dendritic boxes : host – guest chemistry

Supramolecular motion

Electrochemically controlled machine

Logic gates

AND function

Molecular shuttles

Light driven shuttle

Applications

Sensors

10 - 100 nm

y [ M n + + n e ] X - R - Y M X R Y

X R Y

1 - 1 0 n m M e t a l o x i d e p r e c u r s or

X R Y

X R Y O x i d e

M e t a l c o r e

20-50 nm

Clusters with Oxide Cover

New composite materials

Ru||

OOP

ON

N

NN N

N

O PO

O

N+

N+

PO(OH)2

PO(OH)2

Conducting Glass

Nanostructured TiO2 Film

TiO2

TiO2-RV

Modified electrodes

Endless possibilities…!