title: Advances towards synthetic machines at the molecular and nanoscale level.
abstract: The fabrication of increasingly smaller machines to the nanometer scale can be achieved by either a "top-down" or "bottom-up" approach. While the former is reaching its limits of resolution, the latter is showing promise for the assembly of molecular components, in a comparable approach to natural systems, to produce functioning ensembles in a controlled and predetermined manner. In this review we focus on recent progress in molecular systems that act as molecular machine prototypes such as switches, motors, vehicles and logic operators.
authors.affiliation: School of Chemistry, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, 3800, Australia; E-Mail: Kristina.Konstas@sci.monash.edu.au.
authors.forename: Kristina
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Konstas
authors.forename: Steven J
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Langford
authors.forename: Melissa J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Latter
mesh_terms: D008962:Models, Theoretical; D011083:Polycyclic Compounds / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D011083:Polycyclic Compounds