Ben Feringa Nobel laureate explains how tiny chemical machines could change the world Nobel prizewinning chemist Ben Feringa – ChemistryCan. Photo credit: Jeroen van Kooten @UG Windows that clean themselves, cars that mend their own scratches, and precision antibiotics that only act in the exact site of an infection. Those are just some of the life-enriching inventions that could be made possible by “molecular machines”, according to Nobel prizewinning chemist Ben Feringa. He says recent innovations in chemistry could pave the way to a greener and healthier future, enabled by tiny progr...