The ability to design nanostructures with arbitrary shapes and controllable motions has
made DNA nanomaterials used widely to construct diverse nanomachines with various …

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 …

INTRODUCTION Since the 1980s, the design and synthesis of molecular machines has
been identified as a grand challenge for molecular engineering. Robots are an important …

Synthetic DNA motors have great potential to mimic natural protein motors in cells but the
operation of synthetic DNA motors in living cells remains challenging and has not been …

DNA‐based machines have attracted rapidly growing interest owing to their potential in drug
delivery, biocomputing, and diagnostic applications. Herein, we report a type of exonuclease …

As our understanding and control of intra-and intermolecular interactions evolve, ever more
complex molecular systems are synthesized and assembled that are capable of performing …

Photoresponsive nucleic acids attract growing interest as functional constituents in materials
science. Integration of photoisomerizable units into DNA strands provides an ideal handle …

Molecular devices with information-processing capabilities hold great promise for
developing intelligent nanorobotics. Here we demonstrate a DNA navigator system that can …

MicroRNA (miRNA) is a class of endogenous, noncoding RNA with a typical length of 19−
23 nucleotides (nt). 1− 3 miRNA regulate the expression of specific genes by binding to …

Molecular machines have previously been designed that are propelled by DNAzymes,,,
protein enzymes,, and strand displacement,,. These engineered machines typically move …