[HTML][HTML] Fundamentals and applications of enzyme powered micro/nano-motors

H Yuan, X Liu, L Wang, X Ma - Bioactive Materials, 2021 - Elsevier
Micro/nanomotors (MNMs) are miniaturized machines that can convert many kinds of energy
into mechanical motion. Over the past decades, a variety of driving mechanisms have been …

Tunable metal hydroxide–organic frameworks for catalysing oxygen evolution

S Yuan, J Peng, B Cai, Z Huang, AT Garcia-Esparza… - Nature Materials, 2022 - nature.com
The oxygen evolution reaction is central to making chemicals and energy carriers using
electrons. Combining the great tunability of enzymatic systems with known oxide-based …

Enzymes as active matter

S Ghosh, A Somasundar, A Sen - Annual Review of Condensed …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Nature has designed multifaceted cellular structures to support life. Cells contain a vast
array of enzymes that collectively perform essential tasks by harnessing energy from …

Scalar active mixtures: The nonreciprocal Cahn-Hilliard model

S Saha, J Agudo-Canalejo, R Golestanian - Physical Review X, 2020 - APS
Pair interactions between active particles need not follow Newton's third law. In this work, we
propose a continuum model of pattern formation due to nonreciprocal interaction between …

Boosted molecular mobility during common chemical reactions

H Wang, M Park, R Dong, J Kim, YK Cho, T Tlusty… - Science, 2020 - science.org
Mobility of reactants and nearby solvent is more rapid than Brownian diffusion during
several common chemical reactions when the energy release rate exceeds a threshold …

Single-particle diffusional fingerprinting: A machine-learning framework for quantitative analysis of heterogeneous diffusion

HD Pinholt, SSR Bohr, JF Iversen… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Single-particle tracking (SPT) is a key tool for quantitative analysis of dynamic biological
processes and has provided unprecedented insights into a wide range of systems such as …

Open questions of chemically powered nano-and micromotors

W Wang - Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2023 - ACS Publications
Chemically powered nano-and micromotors are microscopic devices that convert chemical
energy into motion. Interest in these motors has grown over the past 20 years because they …

Chemotactic motility-induced phase separation

H Zhao, A Košmrlj, SS Datta - Physical review letters, 2023 - APS
Collectives of actively moving particles can spontaneously separate into dilute and dense
phases—a fascinating phenomenon known as motility-induced phase separation (MIPS) …

Hydrophobic pockets of HPMC enable extremely short reaction times in water

D Petkova, N Borlinghaus, S Sharma… - ACS Sustainable …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Although greener and faster access to fine chemicals and APIs is highly desirable, there are
currently no synthetic methodologies which undergo reaction completions within a few …

Master curve of boosted diffusion for 10 catalytic enzymes

AY Jee, T Tlusty, S Granick - Proceedings of the National …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Molecular agitation more rapid than thermal Brownian motion is reported for cellular
environments, motor proteins, synthetic molecular motors, enzymes, and common chemical …