Recent Advances in Single‐Molecule Biophysics with the Use of Atomic Force Microscopy

Artificial Molecular Machines

“…Instead of average statistical information obtained from an ensemble of species, these techniques allow direct measurement of molecular level forces, mechanical properties and motions such as rotation, gliding, and translation, pivoting of an individual molecule, supramolecular host–guest exchange, and coconformational changes within interlocked molecular assemblies. ,− Beside their imaging abilities, the use of such tools to drive molecular level motion has also been explored.…”