RE:RE:RE:Economics are strictly regulated!"MRT just won the 2016 Nobel"
Not quite accurate, JJ. Sauvage, Stoddart and Feringa won the 2016 Nobel Prize in chemistry "for the design and synthesis of molecular machines."
The 1987 Nobel Prize in chemistry is the one which was awarded for work in MRT. It was awarded to Cram, Lehn and Pedersen for "for their development and use of molecules with structure-specific interactions of high selectivity".
From the Wikipedia article on supramolecular chemistry, "(w)hile traditional chemistry focuses on the covalent bond, supramolecular chemistry examines the weaker and reversible noncovalent interactions between molecules. These forces include hydrogen bonding, metal coordination, hydrophobic forces, van der Waals forces, pi-pi interactions and electrostatic effects. Important concepts that have been demonstrated by supramolecular chemistry include molecular self-assembly, folding, molecular recognition, host-guest chemistry, mechanically-interlocked molecular architectures, and dynamic covalent chemistry."
(the bold-face above is mine, not Wikipedia's - these are the concepts involved in the 1987 and 2017 prizes)
So, as you can see, MRT is just one concept exploring supramolecular chemistry. The 2017 Nobel was awarded for a different concept.
Perhaps you can shed light on why MRT, a 30 year old concept, is only worth about $13 to $15 million now, and no large chemical or separation companies have implemented this technology?