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Chemistry World
November 9, 2011
Phillip Broadwith |
World's smallest remote control car debuts A tiny remote-controlled four-wheel drive electric vehicle has been made by chemists in the Netherlands. The single molecule car's 'wheels' can be made to turn in response to tiny electrical pulses, propelling it across a surface.   |
Chemistry World
May 30, 2008
Lewis Brindley |
Putting the brakes on nanomachines Chemists in Taiwan have developed a nanomachine fitted with light-triggered molecular brakes, which can stop nanoscale propellers or wheels from spinning. |
PC Magazine
November 30, 2005
John R. Quain |
Tiny Hot Wheels To work on a Lilliputian scale, you need Lilliputian tools. So researchers at Rice University in Houston have created a nano car to shuttle molecules around. |
Technology Research News
August 13, 2003 |
Molecule makes ring rotor Researchers from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland have interlocked large, ring-shaped molecules to make a molecular rotor that moves in only one direction. The molecule could eventually be used as a nanoscale motor or winch. |
Reactive Reports
Issue 33
David Bradley |
The Miniature Rotarians Tiny interlocking wheels are the components of a miniscule molecular rotor designed and built by UK chemists. The submicroscopic invention offers a new motor-like component for those hoping to build nanotechnology from the bottom up. |
Technology Research News
June 2, 2004 |
Buckyballs Gain Smaller Kin Researchers from Xiamen University and the Chinese Academy of Sciences have constructed a smaller version of the buckyball or C60 fullerene molecule, a spherical cage of carbon atoms. |
Chemistry World
May 16, 2006
Jon Evans |
Buckyballs Worth Their Weight in Gold A team of chemists and physicists has uncovered evidence for the existence of hollow buckyball-like cages made of gold. |
Chemistry World
October 31, 2007
Lewis Brindley |
Filming the Nanoworld Scientists in the US have upgraded the circuitry on a popular microscopy technique to boost the speed of imaging by about 100 times |
Wired
July 2000
Rick Overton |
Molecular Electronics Will Change Everything The Next Big Thing is very, very small. Picture trillions of transistors, processors so fast their speed is measured in terahertz, infinite capacity, zero cost. It's the dawn of a new technological revolution - and the death of silicon. Can you say Thiophene Ethynylene Valley? |
Technology Research News
October 20, 2004 |
Mechanical valve design goes nano A combination of molecular modeling and classical engineering techniques were used to design a nanomechanical fluid valve that could (in 10 years) be used for drug delivery, biological and chemical testing, and fuel delivery for microscale and nanoscale engines. |
Chemistry World
December 6, 2007
Lewis Brindley |
Chemists Make Fullerene Necklace Spanish scientists have strung fullerene buckyballs together to produce a polymer with unique electronic properties. The creation of these polymers has demonstrated a new approach to designing novel materials. |
Chemistry World
March 9, 2006
Katharine Sanderson |
Covalent Bonds Crack Under the Strain Chemists must consider engineering principles when designing molecules following news that tough carbon-to-carbon bonds break easily under mechanical strain. |
Chemistry World
March 21, 2007
Richard Van Noorden |
Forcing a Reaction US chemists have forced molecules to react by ripping their bonds apart with ultrasound. The scientists carefully stretched one targeted bond until it snapped, guiding the molecule's subsequent reaction into pathways forbidden by conventional chemistry. |
Chemistry World
July 3, 2014
Tami Spector |
Of atoms and aesthetics Molecular aesthetics means many things to a few people. For some it means tangible aspects of compounds; for others yet, the ways that chemists represent molecules. |
Chemistry World
February 8, 2006
Jon Evans |
To Boldly go Where no Chemist Has Gone Before Studying the interactions between different molecular fragments is taking researchers to the uncharted regions of chemical space. |
