Projektnummer

0062476

Zusammenfassung

Recent advances in the biophysical understanding of cytoskeletal motor proteins, as well as the development of methods to externally control their activity, have raised the possibility of using molecular motors as robust, efficient and cheap nanomachines in synthetic environments. However, so far the detection of these gliding filaments, and the readout of the results of molecular devices, has exclusively relied on bulky microscopic setups. Thus, one of the distinct advantages of molecular-scale devices namely their small size is ultimately lost. The proposed project aims to design and...