(from the article `Physical Sciences`) ...cells. It joined a wide array of microscopic gears, shafts, motors, and other microelectromechanical systems that had been produced with ...
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An assembly of molecules around an 'axle'. Applications include colourfastness of fabric dyes by threading a rod-like azo dye molecule through a ring of six glucose molecules (a cyclodextrin). This assembly is a rotaxane. The cyclodextrin sleeve protects the dye, yet, despite its bulkiness, allows the colourant to fasten on to the cellulose in cott...
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