科学美国人60秒 SSS Nobel in Chemistry for Molecular Machines
时间：2019-01-17 作者：英语课 分类：2016年Scientific American(十)月
“This year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry is about the world’s smallest machines.”
G?ran Hansson, secretary general of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, earlier this morning.
“The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided 1 to award the 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry jointly 2 to Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Sir James Fraser Stoddart and Bernard L. Feringa for the design and synthesis of molecular 3 machines.”
Sauvage was born in Paris and is now an emeritus 4 professor at the University of Strasbourg. Stoddart comes from Edinborough and is now at Northwestern University in Illinois. Feringa is from the Netherlands and is at the University of Groningen.
Following the announcement, Feringa called in and explained some of the potential applications for the microscopic 5 machines.
“First of all let me say I feel a little bit like the Wright Brothers, who were flying a hundred years ago for the first time. And then people were saying, "You know, why do we need a flying machine?" And now we have a Boeing 747 and an Airbus. So that is a bit how I feel…but once you are able to control movement, you have a motor, you can think of all kinds of functions.
“So indeed, we think of transporters, like in your body there are many motors and machines that make it possible that your cells divide, that your muscles work, that there is transport in the cells, etc. But you can think also much broader. Think about nanomachines, microrobots, think about tiny robots that the doctor in the future will inject in your bloodstreams and that go to search for a cancer cell or are going to deliver a drug for instance. But also smart materials, for instance, materials that can adapt, change, depending on an external signal, just like our body functions. That is the kind of functions you can think of.”
—Steve Mirsky
- This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
- There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。
- Tenants are jointly and severally liable for payment of the rent. 租金由承租人共同且分别承担。
- She owns the house jointly with her husband. 她和丈夫共同拥有这所房子。
- The research will provide direct insight into molecular mechanisms.这项研究将使人能够直接地了解分子的机理。
- For the pressure to become zero, molecular bombardment must cease.当压强趋近于零时，分子的碰撞就停止了。
- "Perhaps I can introduce Mr.Lake Kirby,an emeritus professor from Washington University?"请允许我介绍华盛顿大学名誉教授莱克柯尔比先生。
- He will continue as chairman emeritus.他将会继续担任荣誉主席。
- It's impossible to read his microscopic handwriting.不可能看清他那极小的书写字迹。
- A plant's lungs are the microscopic pores in its leaves.植物的肺就是其叶片上微细的气孔。