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Ben Feringa Nobel laureate explains how tiny chemical machines could change the world
Nobel prizewinning chemist Ben Feringa – ChemistryCan. Photo credit: Jeroen van Kooten @UG
Windows that clean themselves, cars that mend their own scratches, and precision antibiotics that only act in the exact site of an infection. Those are just some of the life-enriching inventions that could be made possible by “molecular machines”, according to Nobel prizewinning chemist Ben Feringa.
He says recent innovations in chemistry could pave the way to a greener and healthier future, enabled by tiny programmable devices, a millionth of a millimetre across, made from molecules engineered to move in response to stimuli, such as light, electricity or heat. “These molecular machines might have a dramatic effect on how we make materials and on what kind of smart functions we can do in the future,” says Feringa.
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