Protonic Nanomachine Project

They are watching the roles of protons as energy and signal carriers in the complex network formed by a large number of macromolecular nanomachines that support different activities of life.

These biological nanomachines have the ability to form well-defined three-dimensional structure, to self-assemble in suitable times and places to form large complexes. Moreover, they are able to transform the energy as small as the thermal noise efficiently. In addition, they try to expose the unique mechanisms of flexible and yet precise functions and basic physical principle behind them by analyzing the structure and dynamics of these nanomachines. Also, they hope that they will become a basis for artificial nanomachine design and nanotechnology. Their research areas are: NanoAssembly, NanoSwitching and NanoMechanics.