Microtubules—Biological machines at the molecular level

Advances Towards Synthetic Machines at the Molecular and Nanoscale Level

The fabrication of increasingly smaller machines to the nanometer scale can be achieved by either a "top-down" or "bottom-up" approach. While the former is reaching its limits of resolution, the latter is showing promise for the assembly of molecular components, in a comparable approach to natural systems, to produce functioning ensembles in a controlled and predetermined manner. In this review...

Editorial overview: Macromolecular machines and assemblies: Rise and fall at the molecular level.

What is life but building up and tearing down of structures? History mirrors this struggle against entropy as cities rise and fall. Constructions provide protection and beautify, transport occurs, and defenses are mounted against onslaught, only to be tested and eventually fail. Cellular/molecular biology echoes these processes with multiple anabolic pathways, energy conversion mechanisms, infl...

Ferroelectricity at molecular level

Controlling Motion at the Nanoscale: Rise of the Molecular Machines.

As our understanding and control of intra- and intermolecular interactions evolve, ever more complex molecular systems are synthesized and assembled that are capable of performing work or completing sophisticated tasks at the molecular scale. Commonly referred to as molecular machines, these dynamic systems comprise an astonishingly diverse class of motifs and are designed to respond to a pleth...

Spotlight: Catalytic applications of molecular machines

Morteza Torabi was born in 1995 in Hamedan, Iran. He received his B.Sc. in Applied Chemistry (2017) and M.Sc. in Organic Chemistry (2019) from Bu-Ali Sina University under the supervision of Professor Mohammad Ali Zolfigol. He is currently working towards his Ph.D. under the supervision of Professor Mohammad Ali Zolfigol at Bu-Ali Sina University. His research interest is the design, synthesis ...