Since the publication of the original review of piezoelectric acoustic sensors in this series
there has been a consistent, gradual expansion in the number of published papers using …

Over the past ten years, great advancements have been made towards using biomolecular
motors for nanotechnological applications. In particular, devices using cytoskeletal motor …

Muscle contraction and a range of critical cellular functions rely on force-producing
interactions between myosin motors and actin filaments, powered by turnover of adenosine …

For certain nanotechnological applications of the contractile proteins actin and myosin, eg.,
in biosensing and network-based biocomputation, it would be desirable to temporarily …

The dynamic cytoskeletal components, biomolecular motors and their associated filaments,
can be integrated in vitro with synthetic components to enable nanoscale transport systems …

Myosin II is a molecular motor that converts chemical energy derived from ATP hydrolysis
into mechanical work. Myosin II isoforms are responsible for muscle contraction and a range …

Over the last 25 years, extensive progress has been made in developing a range of
nanotechnological applications where cytoskeletal filaments and molecular motors are key …

Significant advancements have been made towards exploitation of naturally available
molecular motors and their associated cytoskeletal filaments in nanotechnological …

In the in vitro motility assay, actin filaments are propelled by surface-adsorbed myosin
motors, or rather, myosin motor fragments such as heavy meromyosin (HMM). Recently …

Since the late 1990s, efforts have been made to utilize cytoskeletal filaments, propelled by
molecular motors, for nanobiotechnological applications, for example, in biosensing and …