Almost every part of our human body is a miniature chemical factory, with valves, reaction vessels, motors, pumps, etc. If we want to copy the processes and create new materials and chemicals, it starts with manipulating just a few of those components.
In this project you will be the first to mount a molecular motor with nanometer precision. Chemists will build molecular motors for you using organic synthesis. You will mount them on a sample with nanometer precision. We already can do this with light-emitting fluorophores and we can image them in the optical microscope. But does it work in the same way with a molecular motor? And how do you know the molecular motor works?
During your project you will use electron microscopes, optical microscopes and wet chemistry.
Contact: prof. dr. Jeff de Hosson, dr. w.f.van.dorp@rug.nl.