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Solvation Effects on the Thermal Helix Inversion of Molecular Motors from QM/MM Calculations
Chemistry, 2022 Molecular motors convert light and thermal energies into mechanical work, offering good opportunities to design novel molecular devices. Among them, molecular motors alternate a photoisomerization and a thermal helix inversion to achieve unidirectional ...
Jin Wen, Meifang Zhu, Leticia González
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Materials Chemistry Frontiers, 2021 The introduction of mechanical functions and controlled motion based on molecular motors and machines offers tremendous opportunities towards the design of dynamic molecular systems and responsive materials.
Jos C. M. Kistemaker +2 more
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Artificial molecular motors [PDF]
Chemical Society Reviews, 2017 Artificial molecular motors take inspiration from motor proteins, nature's solution for achieving directional molecular level motion. An overview is given of the principal designs of artificial molecular motors and their modes of operation. We identify some key challenges remaining in the field.
Salma Kassem +5 more
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Force per cross-sectional area from molecules to muscles: a general property of biological motors [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2016 We propose to formally extend the notion of specific tension, i.e. force per cross-sectional area—classically used for muscles, to quantify forces in molecular motors exerting various biological functions.
Jean-Pierre Rospars +1 more
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Does the Actin Network Architecture Leverage Myosin-I Functions?
Biology, 2022 The actin cytoskeleton plays crucial roles in cell morphogenesis and functions. The main partners of cortical actin are molecular motors of the myosin superfamily.
Julien Pernier, Kristine Schauer
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Current-induced mechanical torque in chiral molecular rotors
Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology, 2023 There has been great endeavor to engineer molecular rotors operated by an electrical current. A frequently met operation principle is the transfer of angular momentum taken from the incident flux.
Richard Korytár, Ferdinand Evers
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Microtubules: A network for solitary waves [PDF]
Journal of the Serbian Chemical Society, 2017 In the present paper we deal with nonlinear dynamics of microtubules. The structure and role of microtubules in cells are explained as well as one of models explaining their dynamics.
Zdravković Slobodan
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Walks of molecular motors in two and three dimensions [PDF]
, 2002 Molecular motors interacting with cytoskeletal filaments undergo peculiar random walks consisting of alternating sequences of directed movements along the filaments and diffusive motion in the surrounding solution.
Adam G. +12 more
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Molecular Biology of the Cell, 2013 Synthetische moleculaire motoren zijn moleculaire motoren die kunnen roteren door invloed van een energetische stimulans; bij lichtaangedreven moleculaire rotoren is dit licht. Dit onderzoek richtte zich op synthetische lichtaangedreven éénrichtingsroterende moleculaire motoren gebaseerd op overpopulatie van alkenen die fotoisomerisaties ondergaan ...
Trybus, Kathleen M. +1 more
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Optomechanical control of molecular motors [PDF]
, 2010 The majority of mechanisms that can be deployed for optical micromanipulation are not especially amenable for extension into the nanoscale. At the molecular level, the rich variety of schemes that have been proposed to achieve mechanical effect using ...
Andrews, D.L. +3 more
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