October 24, 2005
Rice Scientists Build World's First Single-Molecule Car
Posted in Space/Science/Astronomy by Naughty Bits | Comments (1)
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The nanocar consists of a chassis and axles made of well-defined organic groups with pivoting suspension and freely rotating axles. The wheels are buckyballs, spheres of pure carbon containing 60 atoms apiece. The entire car measures just 3-4 nanometers across, making it slightly wider than a strand of DNA. A human hair, by comparison, is about 80,000 nanometers in diameter. Read the complete story here...
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ya, but what kind of gas mileage does it get?
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