Gentlemen, start your engines! A starter system for the smallest molecular motor known so far, B13+, has been prepared. An external laser field of circular polarized light with a tuned frequency is used to trigger the rotation of the inner and outer rings of the planar π-aromatic double-ring system (see picture). Can this idea be transferred to other systems in nanotechnology?
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Merino et al. (2012) studied this question.
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