Quantum and classical dynamics in condensed phases and complex systems

设计和控制自走式纳米马达和分子机器是纳米技术的一个重要目标。实现这一目标可以为微流体装置、药物输送和货物运输等相关应用提供基础。大自然制造了各种各样的分子马达，我们依赖于它们在生物功能中发挥的关键作用。这激发了科学家们复制自然，创造出可以自我推进的人造微小结构。这些小机器在它们移动的环境中受到分子的冲击，必须能够在如此强烈的扰动下有效地工作。拟议的研究涉及如何对化学动力纳米马达和蛋白质机器进行建模，以及如何用理论术语描述它们的操作。

Designing and controlling self-propelled nanomotors and molecular machines is an important objective in nanotechnology. Achieving this objective could provide the basis for applications related to microfluidic devices, drug delivery and cargo transport. Nature has fabricated a large variety of molecular motors and we depend on the crucial roles they play in biological function. This has inspired scientists to copy nature and create artificial tiny structures that can propel themselves. These small machines are buffeted by the molecules in the environments in which they move and must be able to function effectively in spite of such strong perturbations. Proposed research deals with how chemically-powered nanomotors and protein machines may be modeled and how their operation can be described in theoretical terms.