The DNA weathercock
mounted on a porous substrate
NY, USA
London, UK
Sao Paulo, Brazil
Cape Town, South Africa
Marrakesh, Morocco

OUR BRANCHES
Background
There are many important things which have rotating parts in nature, industries, and in our life. For example, we find rotation of the earth, flagellum movement of Euglena, turbine for power generations, motors of cars and locomotives, etc. Again, rotation is an important movement in many ways.
If we could fabricate a rotating machinery in nanoscale, it will provide valuable applications such as nanorobotics. This may be achieved by using DNA nanotechnology. Recently, the DNA origami is attracting attentions. DNA-origami is the programmable nanostructure which is synthesized by weaving a very long single strand DNA with a large number of short single strand DNAs, just like the weft of the textile.