For several year , we ’ve had nanomachines with buckyball wheels , capable to pass over a gold surface . But these nanocars are tricky to control . Now scientist are staging nanocar race to figure how to make the tiny machines go really , really fast .
Scientists in Texas took theH - shaped nanocarand follow up some of the innovation seen on larger scale vehicles . On the front goal , they narrow down the axle , and swapped out the larger buckyballs ( welkin made of 60 carbon atom ) and replace them with methyl - scythed atomic number 15 - carborane , which move more easily than the buckyball . The rear wheels were restrain the same , as they yield a potent grip on the Au surface , but the rear axle was widen to increase solubility , and the whole thing tie in together by C10 solubilizing radical .
The ending result ? A nanocar which can operate at a down heat — and is potentially more maneuverable — than its harbinger . By put on passion or an galvanizing slope to the gold , these cars move across the airfield , and have the possibility of being the apparent movement behind the next coevals of nanomachines .
[ ViaOrganic Letters ]
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