Experimental Demonstration of A Single Molecule-electric Motor
The single molecule electric motor is an electrically operated motor which is made from a single butyl methyl sulphide molecule. The molecule is adsorbed onto a Copper (111) single crystal piece by chemisorption. The motor, the world's smallest electric motor, is just a nanometer (billionth of a meter) across (60,000 times smaller than the thickness of a human hair). It was developed by chemists at the Tufts University School of Arts and Sciences.
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