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Jan 12, 2023

Now on the molecular scale: Electric motors

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, nanotechnology

Electric vehicles, powered by macroscopic electric motors, are increasingly prevalent on our streets and highways. These quiet and eco-friendly machines got their start nearly 200 years ago when physicists took the first tiny steps to bring electric motors into the world.

Now a multidisciplinary team led by Northwestern University has made an electric motor you can’t see with the naked eye: an on the molecular scale.

This early work—a motor that can convert into unidirectional motion at the —has implications for and particularly medicine, where the electric molecular motor could team up with biomolecular motors in the human body.

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