molecular machine

collocation in English

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molecular
adjective
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/məˈlek.jə.lər/us
/məˈlek.jə.lɚ/
relating to molecules (= the simplest units of a ...
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machine
noun[C]
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/məˈʃiːn/us
/məˈʃiːn/
a piece of equipment with several moving parts that uses power to do a particular type ...
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(Definition ofmolecularandmachinefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Though biology clearly demonstrates thatmolecularmachinesystems are possible, non-biological molecular machines are today only in their infancy.
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Such devices are more related to microscopy or scanning probe microscopy, instead of the description of nanorobots asmolecularmachine.
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A molecular assembler is a kind ofmolecularmachine.
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Stoddart predicts that when the stations are dissimilar with each of the stations addressed by a different external stimulus the shuttle becomes amolecularmachine.
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Carbon is essential to life since all molecular machines are built around a central scaffolding of organic carbon.
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Drexler's vision of nanotechnology, now called molecular nanotechnology, is based on the concept of the molecular assembler, amolecularmachinewhich would manufacture molecules and molecular devices atom-by-atom.
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Real time imaging of rotating molecular machines.
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These proteins and their nanoscale dynamics are far more complex than any molecular machines that have yet been artificially constructed.
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The design improves on previous nanocar designs and is a step towards creating molecular machines.
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A few of these molecular machines malfunctioned, and became entangled with other self-replicating molecules that made up the living organisms of this planet.
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Nubots are organic molecular machines at the nanoscale.
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Technomimetics can be considered as the essential components of molecular machines and have the primary use in molecular nanotechnology.
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This led to the conclusion that essentiality is a property of molecular machines (i.e. complexes) rather than individual components.
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Nanomachines are largely in the research-and-development phase, but some primitive molecular machines and nanomotors have been tested.
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Biological systems are inherently nano in scale; nanoscience must merge with biology in order to deliver biomacromolecules and molecular machines that are similar to nature.
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What we mean with reverse is that it is possible to observe that these small molecular machines are able to generate work by taking heat from the environment.
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The dispute was about the feasibility of constructing molecular assemblers, which are molecular machines which could robotically assemble molecular materials and devices by manipulating individual atoms or molecules.
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Within cells, molecular machines such as the bacterial flagella and protein sorting machinery evolved by the recruitment of several pre-existing proteins that previously had different functions.
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Much of the research concerning rotaxanes and other mechanically-interlocked molecular architectures, such as catenanes, has been focused on their efficient synthesis or their utilization as artificial molecular machines.
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