Nanomotors: biological & non-biological
from the clearly-explained dept.
The free email newsletter TNT Weekly points out a good piece in Mechanical Engineering magazine on Hybrid NEMS, covering the work of Carlo Montemagno and Alex Zettl on molecular motors and bearings. TNT says: "This article is not just another rehashing of the same material but gives more technical detail on the biomolecular motor work than we've seen in any review so far, and in a pretty accessible way. The other researcher puts across his view that we will probably eventually create machines based upon what we've learned from the biological ones rather than using the biological ones directly."
February 27th, 2001 at 6:02 PM
An example of real nanotechnology
This is an example of real nanotechnology. If you read thier paper in ACS's NanoLetters, you will noticed that they used a chemical self-assembly process (solution-phase chemistry, of course) to fabricate these devices. This kind of chemical self-assembly is similar to the processes that James Heath (at UCLA) and James Tour (at Rice) are using to fabricate thier molecular electronic systems.