Read more about our research on F1 motor (journals.aps.org/prl/abstract...) published in @physrevlett.bsky.social in collaboration with Shoichi Toyabe's group (Tohoku University) @humboldt-foundation.de @davidasivak.bsky.social @tuberlin.bsky.social

This was a stimulating and thoroughly enjoyable melding of experiment and theory. Special salute to lead author Takahide Mishima and the rest of Shoichi Toyabe’s group at Tohoku, former postdoc Deepak Gupta, and current grad student Callum Wareham @sfuphysics.bsky.social @sfuscience.bsky.social

Efficiently Driving ${\mathrm{F}}_{1}$ Molecular Motor in Experiment by Suppressing Nonequilibrium Variation Turning a biologically important molecular motor at a constant rate saves energy, according to experiments.

Is it more efficient to push a molecular motor with a constant force, or at a constant velocity? See our collaborative paper in @physrevlett.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1103/b24h...
and the Focus article
physics.aps.org/articles/v18...
to learn the winner and the why (it’s all about the fluctuations).