Ultra-confined controllable cyclic peptides as supramolecular biomaterials

MS Chorsi, W Linthicum, A Pozhidaeva, C Mundrane… - Nano Today, 2024 - Elsevier
The capacity to design molecules capable of orchestrated movements in response to
specific stimuli could yield functional biomaterials suitable for diverse innovative materials …

Chetaev instability framework for kinetostatic compliance-based protein unfolding

A Mohammadi, MW Spong - IEEE Control Systems Letters, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Understanding the process of protein unfolding plays a crucial role in various applications
such as design of folding-based protein engines. Using the well-established kinetostatic …

Quadratic optimization-based nonlinear control for protein conformation prediction

A Mohammadi, MW Spong - IEEE Control Systems Letters, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Predicting the final folded structure of protein molecules and simulating their folding
pathways is of crucial importance for designing viral drugs and studying diseases such as …

[HTML][HTML] A Numerical Integrator for Kinetostatic Folding of Protein Molecules Modeled as Robots with Hyper Degrees of Freedom

A Kacem, K Zbiss, A Mohammadi - Robotics, 2024 - mdpi.com
The kinetostatic compliance method (KCM) models protein molecules as nanomechanisms
consisting of numerous rigid peptide plane linkages. These linkages articulate with respect …

The Evolving Role of Robot Kinematics in Bio-Nanotechnology

K Kazerounian, H Ilies - International Symposium on Advances in Robot …, 2024 - Springer
The fusion of kinematics, a field centered on motion and geometry, with molecular biology
has opened new avenues in disease diagnosis and treatment, drug development …

Sign gradient descent algorithms for kinetostatic protein folding

A Mohammadi, M Al Janaideh - 2023 International Conference …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper proposes a sign gradient descent (SGD) algorithm for predicting the three-
dimensional folded protein molecule structures under the kinetostatic compliance method …

Exploring electric field perturbations as the actuator for nanorobots and nanomachines

C Mundrane, M Chorsi, O Vinogradova, H Ilies… - … on Advances in Robot …, 2022 - Springer
Nanomachines and nanorobots are nanoscale mechanisms that transform an input motion
or force into some desirable output. These machines offer significant applications in …

Synthesizing functional mechanisms from a link soup

P Tavousi, K Kazerounian… - Journal of …, 2016 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
The synthesis of functional molecular linkages is constrained by difficulties in fabricating
nanolinks of arbitrary shapes and sizes. Thus, classical mechanism synthesis methods …

Kinematic design of functional nanoscale mechanisms from molecular primitives

MT Chorsi, P Tavousi… - Journal of Micro …, 2021 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Natural nanomechanisms such as capillaries, neurotransmitters, and ion channels play a
vital role in the living systems. But the design principles developed by nature through …

Assemble-and-match: A novel hybrid tool for enhancing education and research in rational structure based drug design

P Tavousi, R Amin, S Shahbazmohamadi - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Rational drug design is the process of finding new medication that can activate or inhibit the
biofunction of a target molecule by binding to it and forming a molecular complex. Here …