Have you heard about the molecular machine which operates through a mechanism with inspiration from a hundred and forty year old thought experiment? University of Edinburgh chemists have done this wonderful thing and used light energy for fuelling information transfer.
This molecular machine is responsible for performing sorting task envisioned for Maxwell’s pressure demon requiring external energy input for doing so without challenging the Second Law of Thermodynamics. With the aid of light energy the molecule transmits information regarding the position of molecular fragment in a manner which enables transportation of same fragment in a particular direction.
The synthetic molecular machine is used for harnessing the abilities for technological use i.e. artificial nanotechnology and it is expected that in the future it will have a visible impact on the whole society but that vision is still to be achieved.
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