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Which is the smallest in size i.e ( lenght and width)
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23 Mar '09 06:27 pm
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Sometimes invention is the mother of necessity. Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have developed the world's smallest motor. Now they're trying to figure out what to do with it.
Using a gold rotor mounted atop a carbon nanotube shaft, the smallest synthetic motor ever made measures just 500 nanometers across--about 300 times smaller than the width of a human hair. It's small enough to be mounted onto a virus, and requires a scanning electron microscope for you to watch it in operation.
"Nature is still ahead of us," says Alex Zettl, the UC-Berkeley physics professor whose team developed the new nanomotor, "but we're catching up." The breakthrough project comes just 15 years after another team of Berkeley scientists claimed credit for building the first microscale motor. At about 100 microns, or a hair's width, it was a relative Gulliver in the Lilliputian world of nanotechnology.
The shaft of the new motor is a single nanotube, only a few carbon atoms thic ...more
Answered by radhikamruta, 23 Mar '09 06:31 pm
Using a gold rotor mounted atop a carbon nanotube shaft, the smallest synthetic motor ever made measures just 500 nanometers across--about 300 times smaller than the width of a human hair. It's small enough to be mounted onto a virus, and requires a scanning electron microscope for you to watch it in operation.
"Nature is still ahead of us," says Alex Zettl, the UC-Berkeley physics professor whose team developed the new nanomotor, "but we're catching up." The breakthrough project comes just 15 years after another team of Berkeley scientists claimed credit for building the first microscale motor. At about 100 microns, or a hair's width, it was a relative Gulliver in the Lilliputian world of nanotechnology.
The shaft of the new motor is a single nanotube, only a few carbon atoms thic ...more
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