Molecular machines are a class of molecules typically described as an assembly of a discrete number of molecular components intended to produce mechanical...
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motors, but also to natural biological macromolecules, such as molecular machines. Machines can be driven by animals and people, by natural forces such as...
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positioning reactive molecules with atomic precision". A molecular assembler is a kind of molecular machine. Some biological molecules such as ribosomes fit this...
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nanotechnology (or molecular manufacturing) would make use of positionally-controlled mechanosynthesis guided by molecular machine systems. MNT would...
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Nanotechnology (redirect from Sub-molecular engineering)
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...
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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...
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regulation and vision. They are also one of the simplest examples of molecular machines. In cellular biology, proteins act as intracellular signaling molecules...
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Synthetic molecular motors are molecular machines capable of continuous directional rotation under an energy input. Although the term "molecular motor" has...
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Julius Rebek (section Molecular machine)
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...
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Molecular geometry is the three-dimensional arrangement of the atoms that constitute a molecule. It includes the general shape of the molecule as well...
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Rotaxane (category Molecular electronics)
interlocked molecular architectures, such as catenanes, has been focused on their efficient synthesis or their utilization as artificial molecular machines. However...
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diphosphate (ADP) and inorganic phosphate (Pi). ATP synthase is a molecular machine. The overall reaction catalyzed by ATP synthase is: ADP + Pi + 2H+out...
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Gray goo (category Self-replicating machines)
global catastrophic scenario involving molecular nanotechnology in which out-of-control self-replicating machines consume all biomass (and perhaps also...
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(2023). "Streamline unsupervised machine learning to survey and graph indel-based haplotypes from pan-genomes". Molecular Plant. 16 (6): 975–978. doi:10...
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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...
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A molecular demon or biological molecular machine is a biological macromolecule that resembles and seems to have the same properties as Maxwell's demon...
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towards the goal of constructing atomically precise products through molecular machine systems. Input on prize candidates comes from both Foresight Institute...
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Brownian motors are nanoscale or molecular machines that use chemical reactions to generate directed motion in space. The theory behind Brownian motors...
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A molecular shuttle in supramolecular chemistry is a special type of molecular machine capable of shuttling molecules or ions from one location to another...
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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...
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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...
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interchangeably with the term molecular machine, a switch does not perform work upon a change in its shape whereas a machine does. However, photochromic...
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The neutral theory of molecular evolution holds that most evolutionary changes occur at the molecular level, and most of the variation within and between...
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hypothesize a novel biological model for collective biomechanical and molecular mechanisms of cellular motion. It is proposed that microdomains weave...
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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...
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"The Bacterial Flagellar Motor: Structure and Function of a Complex Molecular Machine", International Review of Cytology, 233, Elsevier: 93–134, doi:10...
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Ribosomes are a large and complex molecular machine that catalyzes the synthesis of proteins, referred to as translation. The ribosome selects aminoacylated...
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Molecular gastronomy is the scientific approach of cuisine from primarily the perspective of chemistry. The composition (molecular structure), properties...
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