A nanoscale reciprocating rotary mechanism with coordinated mobility control.
Equilibration simulation of six rotary assembly design variants created with different designed stator (blue, green and orange) stiffnesses. Stiffer stators resulted in rotation at a reduced rate and, if sufficiently stiff, supressed rotation.
Driven rotation of three of the design variants. Rotation was driven using a custom steered molecular dynamics potential to move the cam relative to the stator at a constant rate.
Average conformation of the rotary assemblies after binning conformations taken from the driven rotation simulations using 30 degree increments, and averaging within each bin. The animation plays through all twelve bins.