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Molecular motor speed limits

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To improve the efficiency of molecular motors, a better understanding of the dynamics of their functional motions is required. Now, ultrafast fluorescence spectroscopy has been used to monitor the excited-state evolution of a light-driven molecular motor.

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Figure 1: The dynamics of a light-driven molecular motor.

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  1. Department of Physics, Hamburg 22607 and The Departments of Chemistry and Physics, R. J. Dwayne Miller is at the Max Planck Group for Structural Dynamics, University of Hamburg, The Centre for Free Electron Laser Science, Notkestrasse 85, University of Toronto, 80 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 3H6,

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