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From pulses to motors

Nature Materials volume 2, pages 573–574 (2003)Cite this article

Proteins are used by living organisms to perform important movement, transport and sensing functions. The extraction of a contractile protein from pulses (broad beans) takes us closer to making fully functional biomimetic synthetic machines.

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Figure 1: A potential device using a forisome as a mechanical element.
Figure 2: A vision of biomolecular machines in the nanoworld.

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