Clutch-stack-driven molecular gears in crystals (VIDEO)

Hokkaido University

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Phenylene rings of the clutch-stacked triaryltriazine molecular gears rotate 180°, perpendicular to the molecular plane, interacting with phenylene rings of neighboring molecules in a gear-like fashion, resulting in a correlated molecular motion.

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(Mingoo Jin, et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society. December 7, 2023)

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