World's Smallest Cars Have Moving Parts
source: http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/02/worlds-smallest.html
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Car-shaped molecules can zip around on a glass slide at about nine nanomiles per hour, and their wheels actually turn.
Understanding how these nanocars move could make it easier for researchers to build more sophisticated molecular machines.
"These are, of course, the world's smallest cars," says Jim Tour, a chemist at Rice University who has been making the cars for years. "We have considered (getting) nanoinsurance. I asked my friends at Motorola if they would make 6 x 1023 car phones for our mole of nanocars."
Understanding how these nanocars move could make it easier for researchers to build more sophisticated molecular machines.
"These are, of course, the world's smallest cars," says Jim Tour, a chemist at Rice University who has been making the cars for years. "We have considered (getting) nanoinsurance. I asked my friends at Motorola if they would make 6 x 1023 car phones for our mole of nanocars."
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scarlettcutie_01
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wow someone had to be mighty bored to come up with this. Cool but boring
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