David Leigh (scientist)

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David A. Leigh is Forbes Professor of Organic Chemistry & EPSRC Senior Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. Noted for the development of new methods to construct rotaxanes and catenanes. Using these mechanically-interlocked molecular architectures he has developed a novel molecular information ratchet that employs a mechanism reminiscent of Maxwell's demon (although it requires an energy input and so does not challenge the second law of thermodynamics).^[1]

His group developed a rotaxane based photoactive molecular switch with the capability of changing the hydrophobicity of a surface and thus causing small droplets of liquid to move "uphill," against the force of gravity ^[2]

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[edit] Honors

Royal Society of Chemistry Award for Supramolecular Chemistry (2003)
Royal Society of Chemistry Interdisciplinary Award (2004)
Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (2004)
Institute of Chemistry of Ireland Annual Award for Chemistry (2005)
Swiss Chemical Society Troisième Conferencier in Chemistry (2005)
Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (2005)
Royal Society of London-Wolfson Research Merit Award (2005)
EPSRC Senior Research Fellow (2005-2010)
Royal Society of Chemistry Award for Nanotechnology (2005)
Royal Society of Chemistry-Real Sociedad Española de Química (RSC-RSEQ) Prize for Chemistry (2007)
International Izatt-Christensen Award in Macrocyclic Chemistry (2007)
Foresight Nanotech Institute Feynman Prize (Theory) (2007)
EU Descartes Prize for Research (2007)