Sentences with phrase «nanocars with»

Chemists have previously created tiny nanocars with wheels and axles — as well as molecular rotors and switches.

Waka Nakanishi, an organic chemist at the National Institute for Materials Science in Tsukuba, Japan, has designed a nanocar with two sets of «flaps» that are intended to flutter like butterfly wings when the molecule is energized by the STM tip.

Not exact matches

To create the nanocar, Harutyunyan and her team designed a molecule with a long central body and one pivoted paddle at each of four corners.

He and Gwénaël Rapenne, a chemist at the University of Toulouse - Paul Sabatier, developed the contest after Joachim realized — following an interview with a journalist — that nanocars attracted much more public attention than did his research on fundamental aspects of nanotechnology.

The buckyball wheels can be imaged with a scanning tunneling microscope, which researchers have used to prove that the nanocars really roll on their wheels, as opposed to simply sliding along.