Improving our understanding of biological motors, both to fully comprehend their activities in
vital processes, and to exploit their impressive abilities for use in bionanotechnology, is …

As shape transformations of membranes are vital for intracellular trafficking, it is crucial to
understand both the mechanics and the biochemistry of these processes. The interplay of …

Directed assembly of biocompatible materials benefits from modular building blocks in
which structural organization is independent of introduced functional modifications. For soft …

Highlights•Protein-based biomolecular motors are remarkable energy transducers.•Recent
efforts include re-engineering of individual and collective motor functions.•Constructive …

Synthetic molecular motors typically take nanometer-scale steps through rectification of
thermal motion. Here we propose Inchworm, a DNA-based motor that employs a …

The ability to test the response of cells and proteins to a changing biochemical environment
is of interest for studies of fundamental cell physiology and molecular interactions. In a …

The stepping direction of linear molecular motors is usually defined by a spatial asymmetry
of the motor, its track, or both. Here we present a model for a molecular walker that …

Since we have learned that biological organisms like ourselves are driven by tiny biological
molecular motors we try to design and produce artificial molecular motors. However, despite …

Nanomedicine, a scientific branch of nanotechnology that operates on the same scale as
biology, offers the possibility of influencing the healing process from inside of the body by …

The Tumbleweed (TW) is a concept for an artificial, tri-pedal, protein-based motor designed
to move unidirectionally along a linear track by a diffusive tumbling motion. Artificial motors …