A polymerization-powered motor

Ryan A. Pavlick; Samudra Sengupta; Timothy McFadden; Hua Zhang; Ayusman Sen

doi:10.1002/anie.201103565

A polymerization-powered motor

Ryan A. Pavlick, Samudra Sengupta, Timothy McFadden, Hua Zhang, Ayusman Sen

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Polymer powered! A polymerization reaction has been used to power the first micromotor outside biological systems. The motor employs a form of Grubbs' catalyst asymmetrically bound to gold-silica Janus microspheres (see picture). These motors show increased diffusion of up to 70% when placed in solutions of the monomer. The motors also exhibit chemotaxis when placed in a monomer gradient.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	9374-9377
Number of pages	4
Journal	Angewandte Chemie - International Edition
Volume	50
Issue number	40
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201103565
State	Published - Sep 26 2011

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Catalysis
General Chemistry

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