Autonomous DNA molecular motor tailor-designed to navigate DNA origami surface for fast complex motion and advanced nanorobotics

W Siti, HL Too, T Anderson, XR Liu, IY Loh… - Science Advances, 2023 - science.org
Nanorobots powered by designed DNA molecular motors on DNA origami platforms are
vigorously pursued but still short of fully autonomous and sustainable operation, as the …

Confined Space Nanoarchitectonics for Dynamic Functions and Molecular Machines

K Ariga - Micromachines, 2024 - mdpi.com
Nanotechnology has advanced the techniques for elucidating phenomena at the atomic,
molecular, and nano-level. As a post nanotechnology concept, nanoarchitectonics has …

Thermal fluctuations (eventually) unfold nanoscale origami

M Grasinger, P Sharma - Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 2024 - Elsevier
Origami is a scale invariant paradigm for morphing robotics, deployable structures (eg
satellites, disaster relief shelters, medical stents), and metamaterials with tunable thermal …

Lagrangian approach to origami vertex analysis: kinematics

M Grasinger, A Gillman… - … Transactions of the …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The use of origami in engineering has significantly expanded in recent years, spanning
deployable structures across scales, folding robotics and mechanical metamaterials …

Mechanomaterials and Nanomechanics: Toward Proactive Design of Material Properties and Functionalities

G Zou, CH Sow, Z Wang, X Chen, H Gao - 2024 - ACS Publications
While conventional mechanics of materials offers a passive understanding of the
mechanical properties of materials in existing forms, a paradigm shift, referred to as …

A Light‐Powered Single‐Stranded DNA Molecular Motor with Colour‐Selective Single‐Step Control

T Anderson, W Wu, O Sirbu, K Tong… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Top‐down control of small motion is possible through top‐down controlled molecular motors
in replacement of larger actuators like MEMS or NEMS (micro‐or nano‐electromechanical …

Navigable DNA walker coupled with exonucleases-assisted signal amplification for sensitive fluorescent detection of Staphylococcus aureus

R Cai, X Chen, Y Zhang, X Wang, N Zhou… - Sensors and Actuators B …, 2023 - Elsevier
A fluorescent aptasensor for Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) was constructed by
integrating the mechanisms of fluorescence signal regulation and exonucleases-assisted …