Our journals celebrate the winners of the 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Take an in-depth look at some of the research of this year's Nobel Prize winners, with a free-to-access special collection of articles from across our journals.

Each of the articles is authored by one of the winners, Professors Bernard L. Feringa, Sir J. Fraser Stoddart or Jean-Pierre Sauvage, and together they cover a range of topics, from fundamental mechanisms of organic synthesis to complex molecular architectures that behave like tiny machines.

A perspective piece in New Journal of Chemistry, published in 2013 and co-authored by Jean-Pierre Sauvage, explains how metal-containing molecules can be used as a template for building a remarkable collection of “knotted” supramolecular molecules, from interlocking rings (called catenanes), to a simple trefoil knot, to a complex and beautiful pentafoil knot.

Meanwhile Fraser Stoddart and co-authors discuss the potential of molecular machines for powering mechanical devices, in a tutorial review in ChemSocRev, and Ben Feringa and co-authors investigate how solvent effects can be used to control the motion of a molecular rotary motor in a paper for PCCP.

The papers range from explanatory overviews to detailed data and mechanistic discussions, and over 15 of our journals are featured. All the papers are free to access so visit the collection on our publishing site to begin reading.