Electric Motor Made From a Single Molecule

Posted by samzenpus on Monday September 5, 2011 @04:11AM from the miro-machine dept.

An anonymous reader writes "For the first time, an electric motor has been made from a single molecule. At 1 nanometre long, it's the smallest electric motor ever. Its creators plan to submit their design to Guinness World Records, but the teeny motor could have practical applications, such as pushing fluid through narrow pipes in 'lab-on-a-chip' devices. E. Charles Sykes at Tufts University in Boston and colleagues anchored lopsided butyl methyl sulphide to a copper surface and flowed current through it."

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For a sense of scale, by Anonymous Coward · 2011-09-05 04:19 · Score: -1, Offtopic

It is shown alongside Sarah Palin's brain.
1. Re:For a sense of scale, by Opportunist · 2011-09-05 04:31 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  They tried it, but they have trouble finding her brain. Heisenberg might have his fingers in there.
  
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