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Winner of the IUPAC
Prize
for Young Chemists - 2007
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Euan R. Kay
wins one of the five IUPAC Prizes for Young Chemists, for his
Ph.D. thesis work entitled "Mechanized
Molecules."
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Current address (at the time of application)
School of Chemistry
University of Edinburgh
The King’s Buildings, West Mains Road,
Edinburgh EH9 3JJ, UK
E-mail: [email protected]
Academic degrees
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Ph.D. University of Edinburgh, UK, November 2006,
Organic Chemistry
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MChem, Chemistry with Industrial Experience, University
of Edinburgh, UK, July 2002
Ph.D. Thesis
Title Mechanized Molecules
Adviser Prof. David A. Leigh
Thesis Committee Prof. Christopher A. Hunter (University
of Sheffield, UK); Prof. Mark Bradley (University of Edinburgh,
UK)
Essay
The widespread use of controlled molecular-level motion in natural
processes is inspiring scientists to try to create synthetic devices
that mimic the function of these amazing natural systems. However, it
is far from obvious to see how to design such machines because the established
rules of macroscopic mechanical engineering are entirely inapplicable
at the molecular level where everything is constantly moving and being
buffeted by other atoms and molecules. The issues involved with controlling
motion at the molecular level have consequently occupied the minds of
scientists since as far back as the middle of the 19th Century....[full
text; pdf file - 627KB]
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