From: CurtAdams@aol.com
Date: Tue Aug 20 2002 - 10:30:59 MDT
In a message dated 8/20/02 9:20:30, bradbury@aeiveos.com writes:
>In part, but of more significance is I think you may not have enough
>to grab onto. The way the bacterial flagella is built, the enzyme
>complex kinds of rotates around the end adding subunits that are
>sent up through the central core. It would take a pretty small
>enzyme to pull off the same trick with a small diameter nanotube.
>Of course you might design one to sit over the entire end of the
>nanotube grabbing onto the outside edges but that is more complex
>and figuring out how to rotate it around given the slippery outer
>surface seems problematic. I'm assuming one is adding something
>like benzene subunits one at a time.
Enymes are normally opportunistic - they go off when something
falls into the right place. You could make a complex that rotates
round and round and just adds units as opportunity permits. Unless
the tube is completely entrained to the rotor it works.
Alternatively you could add things to the outside of the buckytube
and convert them back to hydrogens later.
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