Abstract The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2016 has been awarded to Jean-Pierre Sauvage, J. Fraser Stoddart and Bernard L. Feringa, for the design and synthesis of molecular machines. Sauvage works in University of Strasbourg, France, and Stoddart is the professor of Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA, who designed the interlocked molecular, catenanes and rotaxanes, based on mechanical bonds. Feringa is from University of Groningen, the Netherlands, whose contribution for the development of molecular machines was to synthesize and make a molecular motor to obtain unidirectional rotation.
LI Chuan. Design and Synthesis of Molecular Machines: Understanding the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2016[J]. Chinese Journal of Chemical Education, 2017, 38(8): 1-8.