Molecular switch

The Art of Building Small: From Molecular Switches to Motors (Nobel Lecture)

Ben L. Feringa

Citations: 749 • 2017

Shape-Persistent Actuators from Hydrazone Photoswitches

Alexander Ryabchun, Quan Li, Federico Lancia, Ivan Aprahamian, Nathalie Katsonis

Citations: 197 • 2019

Light-driven molecular switches and motors

Ben L. Feringa, Nagatoshi Koumura, Richard A. van Delden, M.K.J.Ter Wiel

Citations: 94 • 2002

Light‐Driven Self‐Oscillating Behavior of Liquid‐Crystalline Networks Triggered by Dynamic Isomerization of Molecular Motors

Jian Sun, Wei Hu, Lanying Zhang, Ruochen Lan, Huai Yang, Deng‐Ke Yang

Citations: 91 • 2021

Phototriggered Complex Motion by Programmable Construction of Light-Driven Molecular Motors in Liquid Crystal Networks

Jiaxin Hou, Guiying Long, Wei Zhao, Guofu Zhou, Danqing Liu, Dirk J. Broer, Ben L. Feringa, Jiawen Chen

Citations: 70 • 2022

Light‐Driven Liquid Crystalline Networks and Soft Actuators with Degree‐of‐Freedom‐Controlled Molecular Motors

Ruochen Lan, Jian Sun, Chen Shen, Rui Huang, Zhongping Zhang, Cong Ma, Jinying Bao, Lanying Zhang, Ling Wang, Deng‐Ke Yang, Huai Yang

Citations: 69 • 2020

Stimuli-Responsive Covalent Adaptable Hydrogels Based on Homolytic Bond Dissociation and Chain Transfer Reactions

Sina Shahi, Hossein Roghani‐Mamaqani, Richard Hoogenboom, Saeid Talebi, Hanieh Mardani

Citations: 45 • 2022

Site-to-site peptide transport on a molecular platform using a small-molecule robotic arm

Salma Kassem, Alan T. L. Lee, David A. Leigh, Augustinas Markevicius, Daniel J. Tetlow, Naoyuki Toriumi

Citations: 14 • 2020

Light-gated redox switching and actuation in polymer hydrogels

Roza R. Weber, Robert Hein, Alexander Ryabchun, Yohan Gisbert, David Garcia Romero, Maria Antonietta Loi, Ben L. Feringa

Citations: 7 • 2025

Ultrasensitive multifunctional COF electrochemical biosensor for bacteria detection based on triple-helix molecular switch and Zn2+ -triggered DNAzyme-driven swing-arm robot

Jialin Zhang, Xuan Wang, Ming Zhou, Jinhui Li, Kang‐Qiang Lu, Herui Wen

Citations: 3 • 2025