A simplified account of cooperative effects in molecular walker teams
Abstract
We study the motion of random walkers with residence time bias between first and subsequent visits to a site, as a model for synthetic molecular walkers based on catalytic DNA known as molecular spiders. Even though a single one-legged walker does not exhibit directional, superdiffusive motion, we find that a team of one-legged walkers on parallel tracks, connected by a flexible tether, does enjoy a superdiffusive transient.
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5th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Nanoscale Computing and Communication