Molecular Machines and Motors

Latest research

1. Polymers with purpose: molecules can squirm free of the pack

   in Nature

   Article 13 March 2026

   

2. Evaluation of MAG-Algabots locomotive dynamics for the development of obstruction navigating nano functional helical biorobots

   • Anal Kishore Singh
   • Chinmaya Mahapatra

   in Emergent Materials

   Article 13 March 2026

   

3. First ‘half-Möbius’ carbon chain wows chemists

   • Davide Castelvecchi

   in Nature

   Article 05 March 2026

   

4. Liquid Metal-Driven Pulsed Jet Propulsion in a Squid-Inspired Robotic Fish

   • Gang Ma
   • Xiao Pan
   • Shiwu Zhang

   in Journal of Bionic Engineering

   Article 25 February 2026

   

5. Investigation of Air-Gap Field Modulation Effect on Dual-Permanent Magnet Linear Vernier Machine

   • Mingjie Wang
   • Zhenghao Zhao
   • Wanying Jia

   in Journal of Electrical Engineering & Technology

   Article 16 February 2026

   

6. Diatom-derived magnetic biohybrid microrobots for photodynamic therapy in glioblastoma

   • Mengyue Li
   • Wen Cheng
   • Niandong Jiao

   in Bio-Design and Manufacturing

   Article 16 February 2026

   

7. Numerical simulation study on intermittent swimming characteristics of octopus based on the eight-arm undulation mechanism

   • Wenhua Chu
   • Liuyang Pan
   • Zijing Zhao

   in Acta Mechanica Sinica

   Article 05 February 2026

   

8. Selective excitation of work-generating cycles in non-reciprocal living solids

   • Yu-Chen Chao
   • Shreyas Gokhale
   • Nikta Fakhri

   in Nature Physics

   Article 03 February 2026

   

9. An optically driven microstructure for torque measurement in rotary molecular motors

   • Giacomo Donini
   • Silvio Bianchi
   • Roberto Di Leonardo

   in Microsystems & Nanoengineering

   Article Open access 03 February 2026

   

10. The building blocks of one of the most complex flagellar nanomachines

    in Nature Microbiology

    Article 03 February 2026

    

11. Enzymatic microbubble robots

    • Songsong Tang
    • Hong Han
    • Wei Gao

    in Nature Nanotechnology

    Article 02 February 2026

    

12. Enzyme-powered Janus nanomotor decorated with β-amino ester/dialdehyde starch: pH-controllable speed, and in vitro curcumin release

    • Mahya Goodarzi
    • Sepideh khoee

    in Iranian Polymer Journal

    Article 02 February 2026

    

13. Wavelength-steered directional rotation in an autonomous light-driven molecular motor

    • Federico Nicoli
    • Chiara Taticchi
    • Massimiliano Curcio

    in Nature Chemistry

    Article 28 January 2026

    

14. Urease-driven nanomotors loaded with sorafenib for magnetically-guided accumulation and deep tissue penetration towards hepatocellular carcinoma therapy via ferroptosis induction

    • Changxing Hua
    • Zeyi Lu
    • Yunfu Cui

    in Microchimica Acta

    Article 26 January 2026

    

15. A stochastic mechanism drives fast substrate translocation in the AAA+ machine ClpB

    • Remi Casier
    • Dorit Levy
    • Gilad Haran

    in Nature Communications

    Article Open access 21 January 2026

    

16. A cylindrical linear permanent magnet hybrid machine for vertical hollow translator

    • Mohammad Reza Mohammadzadeh Moghaddam Rafi
    • Hamid Yaghobi

    in Electrical Engineering

    Article 20 January 2026

    

17. Programming DNA machines to move

    • Selma Piranej
    • Luona Zhang
    • Khalid Salaita

    in Nature Reviews Chemistry

    Article 19 January 2026

    

18. Enhanced spin-relevant performance in molecular magnetic tunnel junctions with embedded g-C\(_{3}\)N\(_{4}\) nanoribbons

    • Jiang Cui
    • Qiang Lu
    • Wei-Jiang Gong

    in The European Physical Journal Plus

    Article 16 January 2026

    

19. Chiral catalysis-driven rotary molecular motors

    • Hua-Kui Liu
    • Benjamin M. W. Roberts
    • David A. Leigh

    in Nature Chemistry

    Article 16 January 2026

    

20. A liquid metal droplet rotary paddle motor

    • Richard Fuchs
    • Nur-Adania Nor-Azman
    • Kourosh Kalantar-Zadeh

    in npj Flexible Electronics

    Article Open access 12 January 2026

    

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