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22 June 2014

Smallest Chemical Nanomotor and Smallest Nanopropeller published

Smallest chemical nanomotor and smallest nanopropeller published copy
© Photo: Alejandro Posada / MPI for Intelligent Systems
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Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems
Tung Chun Lee
PostDoc, now Lecturer, Institute for Materials Discovery, University College London
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Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems
John Gibbs
PostDoc, then Assistant Professor in Physics at Northern Arizona University, USA.
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Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems
Andrew Mark
PostDoc, Petzow Prize winner (2015), now Manager of Optical Engineering at Metamaterial Technologies Inc. (MTI), Nova Scotia, Canada.
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Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems
Mariana Alarcon-Correa
  • Postdoctoral Researcher
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Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems
Debora Schamel
PhD (2015), Postdoc, then Postdoctoral Fellow at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, USA
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Materials
Cornelia Miksch
  • Technical Staff
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Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems
Peer Fischer
Professor

We have published a paper about synthetic chemical nanomotors with an overall size (30 nm) that is comparable to that of some enzymes (Nano Lett., 2014, 14 (5), pp 2407–2412), as well as nanopropellers that are small enough to navigate complex biological networks (diameter of 70 nm), yet can be fully controlled (ACS Nano, Article ASAP, DOI: 10.1021/nn502360t).

Self-Propelling Nanomotors in the Presence of Strong Brownian Forces →

Nanopropellers and Their Actuation in Complex Viscoelastic Media →

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