Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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10825667 | Methods | 2014 | 7 Pages |
Abstract
DNA nanotechnology is a powerful tool to fabricate nanoscale motors, but the DNA nanomotors to date are largely limited to the simplistic burn-the-bridge design principle that prevents re-use of a fabricated motor-track system and is unseen in biological nanomotors. Here we propose and experimentally demonstrate a scheme to implement a conceptually new design principle by which a symmetric bipedal nanomotor autonomously gains a direction not by damaging the traversed track but by fine-tuning the motor's size.
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Authors
Juan Cheng, Sarangapani Sreelatha, Iong Ying Loh, Meihan Liu, Zhisong Wang,