Join Professor Jinwoo Cheon from Yonsei University for a Force Talk entitled "Designer nanomachines for mechano-neuroscience and beyond".

Nanochemistry has been essential to create ”designer nanomachines” that come with mechanical functions in nanoscale precision for next-generation biomedical sciences for identifying and executing desired missions. In this talk, I will discuss ”magneto-mechanical nanoparticles” as core platform materials and tools for a variety of functionalities such as targeting and signalling of cells and live animals in a selective and efficient way. Some of these nanomachines composed of Au cages with magnetic engines along with DNA clutches for programmable mechanical force generations. These tools serve as a modulator for cell signalling of neurons via “magneto-mechanical-genetics (MMG)” for the therapeutic and motion/behaviour control of live animals. MMG serves as one of the most advanced technologies in controlling neurons for brain stimulations via remote and wireless fashion.