Title
Characterization of Protein based Spring-like Elastic Joints for Biorobotic Applications
Abstract
This paper presents a molecular mechanics study using a molecular dynamics software (NAMD) for characterization of molecular elastic joints for bio nanorobotic prototyping. Simple protein-like elastic joints elements for structural links have been carefully studied and simulated to understand the functional limits of each one of them: fibronectin, titin, deca-alanine, fibrillin, Rop and double-helical DNA molecules. We simulated the restoring forces involved under various external mechanical stress to predict the type of force spectra, reversibility, degrees of freedom and irreversible work that may be expected from single-molecule protein manipulation experiments. Their use as elementary molecular components for bio-nanorobotic structures are also simulated and the results discussed.
Year
DOI
Venue
2006
10.1109/ROBOT.2006.1641966
ICRA
Keywords
DocType
Volume
biocontrol,biology computing,biomolecular electronics,biotechnology,elasticity,microrobots,proteins,bio nanorobotic prototyping,external mechanical stress,molecular dynamics software,molecular mechanics,protein based spring-like elastic joints
Conference
2006
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
1
1050-4729
3
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.51
1
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mustapha Hamdi1174.52
Gaurav Sharma2101.29
Antoine Ferreira38313.25
Constantinos Mavroidis412423.54