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| Bill Cousert |
 Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2003 9:29 pm |
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http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2003/07/23_motor.shtml
Physicists build world's smallest motor using nanotubes and etched silicon
By Robert Sanders, Media Relations | 23 July 2003
BERKELEY - Only 15 years after University of California, Berkeley, engineers
built the first micro-scale motor, a UC Berkeley physicist has created the
first nano-scale motor - a gold rotor on a nanotube shaft that could ride on
the back of a virus.
"It's the smallest synthetic motor that's ever been made," said Alex Zettl,
professor of physics at UC Berkeley and faculty scientist at Lawrence
Berkeley National Laboratory. "Nature is still a little bit ahead of us -
there are biological motors that are equal or slightly smaller in size - but
we are catching up."
Zettl and his UC Berkeley graduate students and post-docs report their feat
in the July 24 issue of Nature.
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-Bill Cousert
wrcousert@yahoo.com
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