Rice Scientists Attach Motor to Single-Molecule Car
The car’s light-powered motor is attached mid-chassis.
When struck by light, it rotates in one direction, pushing the car along like a paddlewheel.
Image source: PhysOrg.com / Takashi Sasaki / Rice University
When struck by light, it rotates in one direction, pushing the car along like a paddlewheel.
Image source: PhysOrg.com / Takashi Sasaki / Rice University
Via PhysOrg.com.
In follow-on work to last year's groundbreaking invention of the world's first single-molecule car, chemists at Rice University have produced the first motorized version of their tiny nanocar. The research is published in the April 13 issue of the journal Organic Letters.More here.
"We want to construct things from the bottom up, one molecule at a time, in much the same way that biological cells use enzymes to assemble proteins and other supermolecules," said lead researcher James M. Tour, the Chao Professor of Chemistry, professor of mechanical engineering and materials science and professor of computer science.
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