From Nanotechwire.com: “An Oxford University physicist sees the future of nanotechnology in the workings of one of Nature’s tiniest motors, that which allows some bacteria to swim by rotating slender filaments known as flagella.
” ‘The bacterial flagellar motor is an example of finished bio-nanotechnology, and understanding how it works and assembles is one of the first steps towards making man-made machines on the same tiny scale,’ said Dr Richard Berry, a Tutorial Fellow in Physics at Oxford University…
“The physicist and his Japanese colleagues changed the proteins normally found in the motor of E Coli to make it run on sodium instead of hydrogen ions.”
