Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

New Light-Activated Micro-Motor

Posted by timothy on from the does-not-play-ogg-files dept.

enkidu55 writes: "This link to Popular Science's website shows how a team of scientists in Germany have found that a certain polymer changes shape when hit with different wavelengths of light. They used this to stretch and compress a small spring sort of like the piston in a motor. Still pretty raw, but the potential is amazing."

3 of 31 comments (clear)

  1. Thought this sounded familiar by Peter+T+Ermit · · Score: 3, Informative

    It appeared in the May 10 issue of Science; abstract here. Can't blame PopSci for being so late, though. They're a monthly.

  2. More info by eikonoklastes · · Score: 3, Informative

    Jeeze, one whole paragraph. I found a little more info here. Also, it appears this might be a good starting point.

  3. DUPLICATE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Jesus...

    http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/05 /1 0/1630227&mode=thread&tid=126