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Molecular machines open cell membranes

Víctor García-López, Fang Chen, Lizanne G. Nilewski, Guillaume Duret, Amir Aliyan, Anatoly B. Kolomeisky, Jacob T. Robinson (), Gufeng Wang (), Robert Pal () and James M. Tour ()
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Víctor García-López: Rice University
Fang Chen: North Carolina State University
Lizanne G. Nilewski: Rice University
Guillaume Duret: Rice University
Amir Aliyan: Rice University
Anatoly B. Kolomeisky: Rice University
Jacob T. Robinson: Rice University
Gufeng Wang: North Carolina State University
Robert Pal: Durham University
James M. Tour: Rice University

Nature, 2017, vol. 548, issue 7669, 567-572

Abstract: Rotary molecular machines, activated by ultraviolet light, are able to perturb and drill into cell membranes in a controllable manner, and more efficiently than those exhibiting flip-flopping or random motion.

Date: 2017
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