Nanocars get into top gear

January 24th, 2006

In 2005, James Tour and colleagues at Rice University, Texas, US, made headlines when they reported nanocars with fullerenes for wheels and a chassis of fused aromatic rings.1 The vehicles, three nanometres in size, rolled across gold surfaces observed by scanning tunnelling microscopy. Read more here.

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