A University of Liverpool researcher has contributed to new research that demonstrates a completely novel type of molecular motor.
Biochemistry
Sep 7, 2023
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Joint research groups at Tampere University, University of Helsinki, Lund University and Pi-Numerics, Salzburg, have established key early steps in the conversion of aromatic molecules, a major constituent of traffic and ...
Analytical Chemistry
Aug 23, 2023
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A new study determines the efficiency of a single-molecule heat engine by considering a series of ratchets that transfer energy along a network.
Nanophysics
Jul 25, 2023
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Rotary molecular motors were first created in 1999, in the laboratory of Ben Feringa, Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Groningen. These motors are driven by light. For many reasons, it would be good to ...
Biochemistry
Nov 4, 2022
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Light-driven molecular motors have been around for over 20 years. These motors typically take microseconds to nanoseconds for one revolution. Thomas Jansen, associate professor of physics at the University of Groningen, and ...
Materials Science
Jun 18, 2021
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A visualization made from nearly 100,000 electron microscope images has revealed the ingenious way a protein involved in muscle activity shuts itself down to conserve energy.
Molecular & Computational biology
Dec 2, 2020
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Light-controlled molecular motors can be used to create functional materials to provide autonomous motion, or in systems that can respond on command. For biological applications, this requires the motors to be driven by low-energy, ...
Optics & Photonics
Oct 28, 2020
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Body movement, from the muscles in your arms to the neurons transporting those signals to your brain, relies on a massive collection of proteins called molecular motors.
Bio & Medicine
Jan 22, 2020
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Many organic molecules are chiral, which means that they are non-superimposable on their mirror image. Those mirror images are called enantiomers and can have different properties when interacting with other chiral entities, ...
Materials Science
Dec 6, 2019
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Molecular motors, which rotate unidirectionally in response to an external energy input, constitute an important class of components for future applications in the field of nanotechnology. Molecules whose structure and spatial ...
Materials Science
Nov 26, 2018
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