Molecular machines are a class of molecules typically described as an assembly of a discrete number of molecular components intended to produce mechanical...

motors, but also to natural biological macromolecules, such as molecular machines. Machines can be driven by animals and people, by natural forces such as...

nanotechnology (or molecular manufacturing) would make use of positionally-controlled mechanosynthesis guided by molecular machine systems. MNT would...

positioning reactive molecules with atomic precision". A molecular assembler is a kind of molecular machine. Some biological molecules such as ribosomes fit this...

on molecular machine systems. The premise was that molecular-scale biological analogies of traditional machine components demonstrated molecular machines...

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Molecular motors are natural (biological) or artificial molecular machines that are the essential agents of movement in living organisms. In general terms...

largely in the research and development phase, but some primitive molecular machines and nanomotors have been tested. An example is a sensor having a switch...

Synthetic molecular motors are molecular machines capable of continuous directional rotation under an energy input. Although the term "molecular motor" has...

regulation and vision. They are also one of the simplest examples of molecular machines. In cellular biology, proteins act as intracellular signaling molecules...

A molecular demon or biological molecular machine is a biological macromolecule that resembles and seems to have the same properties as Maxwell's demon...

diphosphate (ADP) and inorganic phosphate (Pi). ATP synthase is a molecular machine. The overall reaction catalyzed by ATP synthase is: ADP + Pi + 2H+out...

A molecular logic gate is a molecule that performs a logical operation based on at least one physical or chemical inputs and a single output. The field...

interlocked molecular architectures, such as catenanes, has been focused on their efficient synthesis or their utilization as artificial molecular machines. However...

Molecular geometry is the three-dimensional arrangement of the atoms that constitute a molecule. It includes the general shape of the molecule as well...

effects, and are present in many of the molecular machines pursued in other laboratories today. Efforts in molecular recognition in the 1980s, led to cleft-like...

global catastrophic scenario involving molecular nanotechnology in which out-of-control self-replicating machines consume all biomass (and perhaps also...

interchangeably with the term molecular machine, a switch does not perform work upon a change in its shape whereas a machine does. However, photochromic...

A molecular cloud, sometimes called a stellar nursery (if star formation is occurring within), is a type of interstellar cloud, the density and size of...

Brownian motors are nanoscale or molecular machines that use chemical reactions to generate directed motion in space. The theory behind Brownian motors...

A molecular sieve is a material with pores (molecule-sized holes) of uniform size which link the interior of the solid to its exterior. These materials...

hypothesize a novel biological model for collective biomechanical and molecular mechanisms of cellular motion. It is proposed that microdomains weave...

A molecular sensor or chemosensor is a molecular structure (organic or inorganic complexes) that is used for sensing of an analyte to produce a detectable...

"The Bacterial Flagellar Motor: Structure and Function of a Complex Molecular Machine", International Review of Cytology, 233, Elsevier: 93–134, doi:10...

The molecular mass (m) is the mass of a given molecule. Units of daltons (Da) are often used. Different molecules of the same compound may have different...

machines and their nanoscale dynamics are far more complex than any molecular machines that have yet been artificially constructed. These molecular motors...

The neutral theory of molecular evolution holds that most evolutionary changes occur at the molecular level, and most of the variation within and between...

A DNA machine is a molecular machine constructed from DNA. Research into DNA machines was pioneered in the late 1980s by Nadrian Seeman and co-workers...

In the field of molecular modeling, docking is a method which predicts the preferred orientation of one molecule to a second when a ligand and a target...

prediction of what might happen if molecular nanotechnology were used to build uncontrollable self-replicating machines. Topics also include hypertext as...