Artificial molecular motors are an ambitious attempt to mimic and surpass natural motors,
one of the most fascinating entities in the molecular realm. Once developed, artificial …

Biological molecular motors provide most cells with the dynamic systems required for their
day-to-day existence. Examples occur in even the simplest organism (eg a bacteria virus) …

Biomolecular motors have inspired the design and construction of artificial nanoscale motors
and machines based on nucleic acids, small molecules, and inorganic nanostructures …

One of the main aims of nanotechnology must be to incorporate moving parts into useful
nanoscale devices. These moving parts may range from simple valves through to complex …

Biomolecular motors, in particular motor proteins, are ideally suited to introduce chemically
powered movement of selected components into devices engineered at the micro‐and …

Inspired by molecular motors in biology, there has been significant progress in building
artificial molecular motors, using a number of quite distinct approaches. As the constructs …

Nature has generated sophisticated and very efficient molecular motors, employed for
nanoscale transport at the intracellular level. As a complementary tool to nanofluidics, these …

A confluence in scientific advancements associated with molecular biology and
nanofabrication technology now offers the potential of engineering functional hybrid …

Track-walking molecular motors are the core bottom-up mechanism for nanometre-resolved
translational movements–a fundamental technological capability at the root of numerous …

Efforts to use protein molecular motors as nanoactuators are making rapid progress. For
instance, it is now possible to carry out directional transport of small cargo along microtracks …