Publications

Synthesis and Photostability of Unimolecular Submersible Nanomachines: Toward Single-Molecule Tracking in Solution

Víctor García-López, Jonathan Jeffet, Shunsuke Kuwahara Angel A. Martí, Yuval Ebenstein, and James M. Tour. Org. Lett. 2016, 18, 10, 2343-2346

Molecular Machines Open Cell Membranes

Víctor García-López, Fang Chen, Lizanne G. Nilewski, Guillaume Duret, Amir Aliyan, Anatoly B. Kolomeisky, Jacob T. Robinson, Gufeng Wang, Robert Pal5 & James M. Tour. Nature 548, 567–572 (2017)

Near-Infrared Light Activates Molecular Nanomachines to Drill into and Kill Cells

Dongdong Liu, Víctor García-López, Richard S. Gunasekera, Lizanne Greer Nilewski, Lawrence B. Alemany, Amir Aliyan, Tao Jin, Gufeng Wang, James M. Tour and Robert Pal. ACS Nano 2019 13 (6), 6813-6823

Visible-Light-Activated Molecular Nanomachines Kill Pancreatic Cancer Cells

Ciceron Ayala-Orozco, Dongdong Liu, Yongjiang Li, Lawrence B. Alemany, Robert Pal, Sunil Krishnan, and James M. Tour. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2020, 12, 1, 410-417

Light-Activated Organic Molecular Motors and Their Applications

Víctor García-López, Dongdong Liu, and James M. Tour. Chemical Reviews 2020 120 (1), 79-124

Molecular Nanomachines Disrupt Bacterial Cell Wall, Increasing Sensitivity of Extensively Drug-Resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae to Meropenem

Thushara Galbadage, Dongdong Liu, Lawrence B. Alemany, Robert Pal, James M. Tour, Richard S. Gunasekera, and Jeffrey D. Cirillo. ACS Nano 2019 13 (12), 14377-14387

Molecular Nanomachines Can Destroy Tissue or Kill Multicellular Eukaryotes

Richard S. Gunasekera, Thushara Galbadage, Ciceron Ayala Orozco, Dongdong Liu, Víctor García-López, Brian E. Troutman, Josiah J. Tour, Robert Pal, Sunil Krishnan, Jeffrey D. Cirillo, and James M. Tour. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2020, 12, 12, 13657-13670

Drilling Down in the Fight Against Bacterial Superbugs

Megan L. McCain, Science Translational Medicine, Vol. 12, Issue 524, eaba2901 (2020)