title: Towards artificial muscles at the nanometric level.
abstract: The authors describe their study of molecular systems suited to the fabrication of machines and (rotory or linear) motors at the molecular level. They indicate that a future application of these molecular'muscles'could be in the area of information storage and processing.
authors.affiliation: Departmento de Quimica, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Apdo 22012, Valencia 46071, Spain.
authors.forename: Maria Consuelo
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Jimenez-Molero
authors.forename: Christiane
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Dietrich-Buchecker
authors.forename: Jean-Pierre
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Sauvage
mesh_terms: D001709:Biotechnology / Q000379:methods / Q000639:trends; D001330:Electronic Data Processing / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000639:trends; D020409:Molecular Motor Proteins / Q000138:chemical synthesis* / Q000737:chemistry; D009132:Muscles / Q000737:chemistry*; D036103:Nanotechnology / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*
chemical_list: D020409:Molecular Motor Proteins