Nanoscale enzymes constitute dissipative active matter that converts scalar energy input into vectorial outputs. Through kinetic and diffusion asymmetry, they break time and space symmetry, resulting....

Understanding chemotaxis at the molecular level is challenging, as individual enzyme molecules cannot sense chemical gradients across their nanometer-sized bodies. Typical theoretical models encompass...

Understanding chemotaxis at the molecular level is challenging, as individual enzyme molecules cannot sense chemical gradients across their nanometer-sized bodies. Typical theoretical models encompass...

Guiding synthetic nanomaterials toward specific cells and subcellular organelles remains a critical challenge for targeted therapeutics. Here, we report that ATPase-functionalized nanoparticles harnes...

Nature Chemical Engineering - Xiaotian Lu and Ayusman Sen discuss the principles underlying the design of active particle populations with distributed functionality that collectively perform...