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A model based on the well-known β-cyclodextrin–adamantane receptor–ligand pair has been used to obtain important insight into the kinetics of gradient-driven motion across a surface.

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Figure 1: Movement of multivalent ligands on a surface with multiple receptors.

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  1. Bruce Turnbull is a Royal Society University Research Fellow in the School of Chemistry and Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology at the University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK ,

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Turnbull, W. A hop, skip and jump. Nature Chem 3, 267–268 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/nchem.1015

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