Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Fraser Stoddart and Ben Feringa developed machines a thousand times smaller than a human hair
STOCKHOLM.- The French Jean-Pierre Sauvage, the british Fraser Stoddart and the Dutch Bernard Feringa, were recognized today with the Nobel prize for Chemistry for developing the smaller machines in the world, a job that could revolutionize computer technology, and give rise to a new type of battery.
The machines at the molecular level have one-thousandth the thickness of a human hair and have taken chemistry to a new dimension.
What is the meaning of this discovery for science?
These machines are “likely to be used in the development of such things as new materials, sensors and energy storage systems,” said the institution announcing the award.
Stoddart has already developed a computer chip molecular with 20 kB of memory. The researchers believe that these chips are so small they can revolutionise computer technology as in their day they made the silicon transistors.
in Addition, this work was of great encouragement to other researchers who began to build molecular machinery advanced, including “a robot that can pick up and connect amino acids” in 2013. In addition, the experts hope to develop a new type of batteries with this technology.
The molecular machines are molecules with controllable movements that can perform a task when provided with energy. Sauvage made a first breakthrough in 1983 when connected between two molecules with ring shape to form a string.
Later, Stoddart took the next step in 1991 to connect a ring molecular a-axis molecular, while Feringa was the first to develop a molecular motor in 1999 when he got a blade rotora molecular spinning in the same direction.
At present, the molecular motor is in the same phase, the electric motor in the 1830s, according to the Swedish Academy.
Who are the elect?
The three scientists awarded today are the pioneers of nanotechnology, other sources and working in different countries and universities, have managed to develop molecular machines tiny.
The French Jean-Paul Sauvage was born in Paris in 1944, and developed a good part of his scientific career in their country. In 1971 he received his phd in Strasbourg, where today he is professor emeritus and emeritus director of research of the National Center for Scientific Research france (CNRS). The research area of Sauvage is related to the type and molecular machines, as well as artificial photosynthesis.
Among the achievements of his group is the synthesis of molecules of interlocking rings and knots, molecular, and systems with rotating and oscillating and the artificial muscles on the nanometer scale.
in Addition, Sauvage entered the CNRS as a researcher in 1971 and became the research director of the centre in 1979, a position he held until 2009. He was appointed knight of the French Legion of Honour in the year 200 and has received, among others, the prize Luigi Tartufari of the National Academy of the Lincei ( Italy ), the medal Blaise Pascal of Chemistry or the RB Woodward. He was also a visiting professor at the Northwestern University (Illinois, USA), the place where he teaches and investigates another of the awardees, the scotsman James Fraser Stoddart, who was born in Edinburgh in 1942, where he received his doctorate in 1966.
Stoddart has linkages to the university almost throughout the world, and his resume published on the website of your university reaches 66 pages. During his career he has received numerous awards both in the Uk and in the united States , as the Medal Davy of the Royal Society of Chemistry, the Medal, the Nagoya gold, or the Cope of the American Chemical Society.
Published 1080 scientific articles and trained more than 500 students from graduates to postdocs and in the past 25 years established itself as one of the chemicals that “opened a new field in chemistry” for his work in molecular recognition, in the words of the Northwestern University.
In 2007, the british The Sunday Times stated that Stoddart “is to nanotechnology what J. K. Rowling is to children’s literature”.
For its part, the Dutch Bernard Lucas Feringa, known in the scientific field as Ben Feringa, was born in Barger-Compascuum in 1951 and is a professor of Organic Chemistry since 1988 in Groningen, a university in which a phd in 1978.
Your research is so outstanding that it is considered as one of the chemicals that are “more creative and productive in the world”, according to the University of Groningen, which highlights his many accomplishments in the fields of organic synthesis, catalysis, chemical, supramolecular, and nanotechnology.
Feringa was the first to react, and after pleading “shocked” and “honored” with the award said that the award was for his entire research group in Groningen.
Agencies AP and EFE
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