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Nanoscale light-driven motors

Morgan - 17-11-2015 at 07:58

Rice makes light-driven nanosubmarine
"And with the motors running at more than a million RPM, that translates into speed. Though the sub’s top speed amounts to less than 1 inch per second, Tour said that’s a breakneck pace on the molecular scale."
http://news.rice.edu/2015/11/16/rice-makes-light-driven-nano...