New Nanotechnology Breakthrough Is A Working Nano-Gear, 1.2nm Across
To be honest with you I didn’t read the entire article; well not yet at least, but that’s only because this cool picture spoke louder than words:
And get this; 1.2 nanometers across, or a few [12] atoms wide, is ten thousand times smaller than the ones pictured here, next to a dust mite.
The gear is made of carbon compounds and can freely rotate around a central axis. The A*STAR team can control the rotation of the molecular gear using a Scanning Tunneling Microscope. It’s the smallest molecular gear yet made, and since its rotation is controlled and not random, scientists are calling it a break-through in nanotechnology.
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