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"Current-driven molecular machine with rotation-enhanced conductance" — Nature (current) · Science & Medicine
Reported in a Nature paper by Singh, Martin and Tal, this is a synthetic molecule designed to behave as a machine powered by electric current: at the single-molecule level, passing current drives rotational motion, and that rotation in turn measurably increases the molecule's . The result is a coupling between mechanical motion and electronic transport, with the current powering the rotation and the rotation making the molecule a better conductor. The '' framing indicates the machine was engineered from scratch for this function rather than borrowed from a natural system.
The claim is the paper's own and rests directly on a primary source: a peer-reviewed Nature article reporting the experimental observation. No independent replication or outside verification is noted here, and specifics beyond the title and listing (such as the exact rotation mechanism or conductance-change magnitude) are not drawn from this item.
Genuinely new: the Nature article is dated 22 Oct 2026, with no recirculation year flagged.