Materials learning from life: concepts for active, adaptive and autonomous molecular systems

R Merindol, A Walther - Chemical Society Reviews, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Bioinspired out-of-equilibrium systems will set the scene for the next generation of molecular
materials with active, adaptive, autonomous, emergent and intelligent behavior. Indeed life …

Chemically powered micro‐and nanomotors

S Sánchez, L Soler, J Katuri - … Chemie International Edition, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Chemically powered micro‐and nanomotors are small devices that are self‐propelled by
catalytic reactions in fluids. Taking inspiration from biomotors, scientists are aiming to find …

Nano/micromotors in (bio) chemical science applications

M Guix, CC Mayorga-Martinez, A Merkoçi - Chemical reviews, 2014 - ACS Publications
Nano-and micromotors are nano-and microscale devices, respectively, designed to perform
selected mechanical movements (eg, rotation, rolling, shuttling, delivery, contraction, and …

Toward intelligent molecular machines: directed motions of biological and artificial molecules and assemblies

K Kinbara, T Aida - Chemical reviews, 2005 - ACS Publications
In the last two decades, considerable progress has been made in the field of molecular
biology, which has enabled a molecular-level understanding of a number of interesting …

Synthetic systems powered by biological molecular motors

G Saper, H Hess - Chemical reviews, 2019 - ACS Publications
Biological molecular motors (or biomolecular motors for short) are nature's solution to the
efficient conversion of chemical energy to mechanical movement. In biological systems …

Macroscopic transport by synthetic molecular machines

J Berna, DA Leigh, M Lubomska, SM Mendoza… - Nature materials, 2005 - nature.com
Nature uses molecular motors and machines in virtually every significant biological process,
but demonstrating that simpler artificial structures operating through the same gross …

[HTML][HTML] A brief review on challenges in design and development of nanorobots for medical applications

G Giri, Y Maddahi, K Zareinia - Applied Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
Robotics is a rapidly growing field, and the innovative idea to scale down the size of robots
to the nanometer level has paved a new way of treating human health. Nanorobots have …

A printable active network actuator built from an engineered biomolecular motor

T Nitta, Y Wang, Z Du, K Morishima, Y Hiratsuka - Nature materials, 2021 - nature.com
Leveraging the motion and force of individual molecular motors in a controlled manner to
perform macroscopic tasks can provide substantial benefits to many applications, including …

Motor proteins at work for nanotechnology

MGL Van den Heuvel, C Dekker - science, 2007 - science.org
The biological cell is equipped with a variety of molecular machines that perform complex
mechanical tasks such as cell division or intracellular transport. One can envision employing …

Photocontrolled nanoparticle delivery systems for biomedical applications

A Bansal, Y Zhang - Accounts of chemical research, 2014 - ACS Publications
Conspectus “Smart” stimuli-responsive nanomaterials are becoming popular as targeted
delivery systems because they allow the use of internal or external stimuli to achieve spatial …