3.052 Internet Resources :
Nanomechanics Links :
· http://web.mit.edu/cortiz/www/nanomechanics.html

Nanostructured Materials : Graduate Course (RPI)

Cool Nanomechanics Animations, Movies, and Simulations on the Internet :
(*in the order in which they appear in the lectures)

AFM :
· Damped Harmonic Motion Java Applet (U. Alberta, CA)
· Simple Harmonic Motion Java Applet (www.explorescience.com)
· Driven Harmonic Motion Java Applet (www.explorescience.com)
· Force versus Distance Animation (U. North Carolina)
· Atomic Force Microscope Visualizations (IBM Almaden)
· First Atomic Force Microscope on Mars Visualizations (U. Basel, Switzerland)

INTERMOLECULAR FORCES :
· Bond Energy and Force Animation (U. Michigan)
· Intermolecular Forces Animation (Georgia Southern University)
· London Force Animation (Western Oregon University)
· Van der Waals simulation movie(Wellesley U.)

WATER SIMULATIONS :

· Water simulations(New York University)
· Movies of Liquid Water and Ice(Ohio State)
· Dissolving of salt by water simulation (Wellesley U.)

PROTEINS AND POLYMERS :
· Online Macromolecular Museum-Illustration of Bonding in Proteins (California Lutheren University)
· Molecular dynamics movies including collapse, swelling, reptation, and protein folding,(Boston University)
· Brownian Motion Simulation (U. Minnesota)
· Two-Dimensional Random Walk Simulation (Furman University)
· One and Two-Dimensional Random Walk Simulation (U. Kentucky)
· Simulations of Unfolding Titin Immunoglobulin Domains (U. Illinois-Urbana Champaign), (*jump directly to movie here)
· Overstretching DNA beyond its B-form contour length with optical tweezers : Movie (UC Berkeley)
· Overstretching DNA beyond its B-form contour length with optical tweezers : Movie (U. Minnesota)

· Molecular Dynamics Study of Scanning Force Microscopy on Self-Assembled Monolayers (U. Basel)

· Nanoindentation movies (U. North Carolina)

· Neutrophil Rolling on Endothelial Cell Animation (U. Birmingham, UK)
· Neutrophil Rolling on Endothelial Cell Movie (U. Birmingham, UK)
· Neutrophil Rolling on Endothelial Cell High Resolution Images (U. Birmingham, UK)
· Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Streptavidin-Biotin Unbinding (Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Germany)

· Molecular Motor Animation: Actin - Myosin (San Diego State University)
· Molecular Motor Simulations (U. Munich)
· Direct Observation of One-dimensional Diffusion and Transcription by E.Coli RNA Polymerase : Movie (UC Berkeley)
· Molecular Motor Movie :"Transcription against an Applied Force" Hong Yin, Michelle D. Wang, Karel Svoboda, Robert Landick, Steven M. Block, and Jeff Gelles Science (1995) vol. 270, pp. 1653-1657 (Brandeis U.)
· Molecular Motor Simulations : Kinesin & AMP-PNP: The Movie (Brandeis U.)

· Cell Movement Movies : Crawling Neutrophil Chasing a Bacterium (Harvard Medical School)
· Cell Movement Movies : Reptation of Fluorescently-Labeled Microtubule in Unlabeled Filamentous Actin Matrix (Harvard Medical School)

· Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Fracture at the Atomic Level (IBM Almaden)

· (1) Dynamic Excitation of Membranes Using Optical Tweezers, (2)Expulsion of inner content from membranes by use of optical tweezers. (3) (Weizmann Institute, Israel)