Tian He, Wang Qiao-Chun
Laboratory for Advanced Materials and Institute of Fine Chemicals, East China University of Science & Technology, Shanghai 200237, P. R. China.
Chem Soc Rev. 2006 Apr;35(4):361-74. doi: 10.1039/b512178g. Epub 2006 Feb 3.
Switchable rotaxanes are currently attracting considerable attention from chemists, physicists and materials scientists because of their potential to perform relative inter-component positional changes in response to external stimuli and the potential applications in the fields such as molecular machines, molecular switches, molecular logic gates and memory devices. This tutorial review summarizes recent work on switchable rotaxanes and their potential applications.
由于可切换轮烷具有响应外部刺激进行相对组分间位置变化的潜力以及在分子机器、分子开关、分子逻辑门和存储设备等领域的潜在应用，目前它们正吸引着化学、物理和材料科学家的广泛关注。本专题综述总结了关于可切换轮烷及其潜在应用的近期工作。
