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Nano-car gets an engine
10:30 14 April 2006
NewScientist.com news service
Tom Simonite
Researchers have installed a molecular engine into a "car" just a few
billionths of a metre long. Measuring just 3 by 4 nanometres, around
20,000 of the cars could be parked on the tip of a human hair.
Jim Tour and colleagues at Rice University in Houston, US, built a
chassis and wheels for a nano-car from organic molecules at the end of
2005. The engineless model could only be powered remotely - using a
heated gold surface to stop its wheels sticking and an electromagnetic
field to drag it forwards. But the new model should be able to propel
itself - using a motor fuelled entirely by light.
The nano-car's molecular motor contains a pair of bonded carbon
molecules that rotate in one direction if illuminated by a specific
wavelength of light. After fixing the molecular engine to the car's
chassis and shining a light on it, Tour's team confirmed that the
engine was running by using nuclear magnetic resonance to monitor the
position of the hydrogen atoms within it.
But the car was not released to drive itself along. "It's analogous to
building a race car and putting it up on blocks," Tour said. "Now it's
a question of getting it out on the track." The motor should function
as a fifth wheel to drive the car along.
Seeing is believing.
Tour estimates that the car could travel two nanometres per minute but
says his team has yet to find a way to watch their molecular
automobile in action. "We think the car would drive along, but we
wouldn't be able to see it and I don't think people would believe us,"
he says.
The previous version of the nano-car moved along a flat gold surface.
But this would stop the new motor from working as the energy collected
from light would drain into the gold molecules.
A non-metal track should allow the engine to work, but this makes
observing the car in action problematic as the scanning tunnelling
microscope normally used needs a metal base. Other forms of microscopy
either do not have the power to resolve the car properly, Tour says,
or require the use of other surfaces that are unsuitable.
"This is shows a general problem with nanotechnology right now," Tour
says. "We only have crude tools and that slows development down."
http://www.newscientisttech.com/article.ns?id=dn9004&feedId=online-news_rss20
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19 Apr 2006 11:13:48 AM |
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On Sun, 16 Apr 2006 13:13:43 +0930, Michael Gray
<fleetg@newsguy.spam.com> wrote in alt.atheism
Nano-car gets an engine
10:30 14 April 2006
NewScientist.com news service
Tom Simonite
Researchers have installed a molecular engine into a "car" just a few
billionths of a metre long. Measuring just 3 by 4 nanometres, around
20,000 of the cars could be parked on the tip of a human hair.
Jim Tour and colleagues at Rice University in Houston, US, built a
chassis and wheels for a nano-car from organic molecules at the end of
2005. The engineless model could only be powered remotely - using a
heated gold surface to stop its wheels sticking and an electromagnetic
field to drag it forwards. But the new model should be able to propel
itself - using a motor fuelled entirely by light.
The nano-car's molecular motor contains a pair of bonded carbon
molecules that rotate in one direction if illuminated by a specific
wavelength of light. After fixing the molecular engine to the car's
chassis and shining a light on it, Tour's team confirmed that the
engine was running by using nuclear magnetic resonance to monitor the
position of the hydrogen atoms within it.
But the car was not released to drive itself along. "It's analogous to
building a race car and putting it up on blocks," Tour said. "Now it's
a question of getting it out on the track." The motor should function
as a fifth wheel to drive the car along.
Seeing is believing.
Tour estimates that the car could travel two nanometres per minute but
says his team has yet to find a way to watch their molecular
automobile in action. "We think the car would drive along, but we
wouldn't be able to see it and I don't think people would believe us,"
he says.
The previous version of the nano-car moved along a flat gold surface.
But this would stop the new motor from working as the energy collected
from light would drain into the gold molecules.
A non-metal track should allow the engine to work, but this makes
observing the car in action problematic as the scanning tunnelling
microscope normally used needs a metal base. Other forms of microscopy
either do not have the power to resolve the car properly, Tour says,
or require the use of other surfaces that are unsuitable.
"This is shows a general problem with nanotechnology right now," Tour
says. "We only have crude tools and that slows development down."
http://www.newscientisttech.com/article.ns?id=dn9004&feedId=online-news_rss20
Pshaw, it's a light weight......
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Fundies and trolls are cordially invited to
shove a wooden cross up their arses and rotate
at a high rate of speed. I trust you'll
be 'blessed' with a plethora of splinters.
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19 Apr 2006 09:41:24 PM |
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On Wed, 19 Apr 2006 09:13:48 -0700, stoney <stoney@the.net> wrote:
- Refer: <adoc42tji3vd9mt75bhsa5m5kvv91siuao@4ax.com>
On Sun, 16 Apr 2006 13:13:43 +0930, Michael Gray
<fleetg@newsguy.spam.com> wrote in alt.atheism
Nano-car gets an engine
10:30 14 April 2006
NewScientist.com news service
Tom Simonite
Researchers have installed a molecular engine into a "car" just a few
billionths of a metre long. Measuring just 3 by 4 nanometres, around
20,000 of the cars could be parked on the tip of a human hair.
Jim Tour and colleagues at Rice University in Houston, US, built a
chassis and wheels for a nano-car from organic molecules at the end of
2005. The engineless model could only be powered remotely - using a
heated gold surface to stop its wheels sticking and an electromagnetic
field to drag it forwards. But the new model should be able to propel
itself - using a motor fuelled entirely by light.
The nano-car's molecular motor contains a pair of bonded carbon
molecules that rotate in one direction if illuminated by a specific
wavelength of light. After fixing the molecular engine to the car's
chassis and shining a light on it, Tour's team confirmed that the
engine was running by using nuclear magnetic resonance to monitor the
position of the hydrogen atoms within it.
But the car was not released to drive itself along. "It's analogous to
building a race car and putting it up on blocks," Tour said. "Now it's
a question of getting it out on the track." The motor should function
as a fifth wheel to drive the car along.
Seeing is believing.
Tour estimates that the car could travel two nanometres per minute but
says his team has yet to find a way to watch their molecular
automobile in action. "We think the car would drive along, but we
wouldn't be able to see it and I don't think people would believe us,"
he says.
The previous version of the nano-car moved along a flat gold surface.
But this would stop the new motor from working as the energy collected
from light would drain into the gold molecules.
A non-metal track should allow the engine to work, but this makes
observing the car in action problematic as the scanning tunnelling
microscope normally used needs a metal base. Other forms of microscopy
either do not have the power to resolve the car properly, Tour says,
or require the use of other surfaces that are unsuitable.
"This is shows a general problem with nanotechnology right now," Tour
says. "We only have crude tools and that slows development down."
http://www.newscientisttech.com/article.ns?id=dn9004&feedId=online-news_rss20
Pshaw, it's a light weight......
Hah!
Light <-> photons!
Weight <-> wait!
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| User: "stoney" |
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20 Apr 2006 11:15:12 AM |
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On Thu, 20 Apr 2006 12:11:24 +0930, Michael Gray
<fleetg@newsguy.spam.com> wrote in alt.atheism
On Wed, 19 Apr 2006 09:13:48 -0700, stoney <stoney@the.net> wrote:
- Refer: <adoc42tji3vd9mt75bhsa5m5kvv91siuao@4ax.com>
On Sun, 16 Apr 2006 13:13:43 +0930, Michael Gray
<fleetg@newsguy.spam.com> wrote in alt.atheism
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A non-metal track should allow the engine to work, but this makes
observing the car in action problematic as the scanning tunnelling
microscope normally used needs a metal base. Other forms of microscopy
either do not have the power to resolve the car properly, Tour says,
or require the use of other surfaces that are unsuitable.
"This is shows a general problem with nanotechnology right now," Tour
says. "We only have crude tools and that slows development down."
http://www.newscientisttech.com/article.ns?id=dn9004&feedId=online-news_rss20
Pshaw, it's a light weight......
Hah!
Light <-> photons!
Weight <-> wait!
:)
"Nano Nano"
--
Fundies and trolls are cordially invited to
shove a wooden cross up their arses and rotate
at a high rate of speed. I trust you'll
be 'blessed' with a plethora of splinters.
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| User: "Michael Gray" |
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| Title: Re: News: The ultimate Compact Car. Intelligent Design at its best. |
20 Apr 2006 09:28:36 PM |
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On Thu, 20 Apr 2006 09:15:12 -0700, stoney <stoney@the.net> wrote:
- Refer: <kqcf4258qf74e91oo6r0ikmu9opq0bfsa1@4ax.com>
On Thu, 20 Apr 2006 12:11:24 +0930, Michael Gray
<fleetg@newsguy.spam.com> wrote in alt.atheism
On Wed, 19 Apr 2006 09:13:48 -0700, stoney <stoney@the.net> wrote:
- Refer: <adoc42tji3vd9mt75bhsa5m5kvv91siuao@4ax.com>
On Sun, 16 Apr 2006 13:13:43 +0930, Michael Gray
<fleetg@newsguy.spam.com> wrote in alt.atheism
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A non-metal track should allow the engine to work, but this makes
observing the car in action problematic as the scanning tunnelling
microscope normally used needs a metal base. Other forms of microscopy
either do not have the power to resolve the car properly, Tour says,
or require the use of other surfaces that are unsuitable.
"This is shows a general problem with nanotechnology right now," Tour
says. "We only have crude tools and that slows development down."
http://www.newscientisttech.com/article.ns?id=dn9004&feedId=online-news_rss20
Pshaw, it's a light weight......
Hah!
Light <-> photons!
Weight <-> wait!
:)
"Nano Nano"
"Work & Mini"
--
Michael Gray.
Founding Member and Doorman,
Earthquack's 666 Club.
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| User: "stoney" |
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21 Apr 2006 04:33:10 PM |
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On Fri, 21 Apr 2006 11:58:36 +0930, Michael Gray
<fleetg@newsguy.spam.com> wrote in alt.atheism
On Thu, 20 Apr 2006 09:15:12 -0700, stoney <stoney@the.net> wrote:
- Refer: <kqcf4258qf74e91oo6r0ikmu9opq0bfsa1@4ax.com>
On Thu, 20 Apr 2006 12:11:24 +0930, Michael Gray
<fleetg@newsguy.spam.com> wrote in alt.atheism
On Wed, 19 Apr 2006 09:13:48 -0700, stoney <stoney@the.net> wrote:
- Refer: <adoc42tji3vd9mt75bhsa5m5kvv91siuao@4ax.com>
On Sun, 16 Apr 2006 13:13:43 +0930, Michael Gray
<fleetg@newsguy.spam.com> wrote in alt.atheism
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A non-metal track should allow the engine to work, but this makes
observing the car in action problematic as the scanning tunnelling
microscope normally used needs a metal base. Other forms of microscopy
either do not have the power to resolve the car properly, Tour says,
or require the use of other surfaces that are unsuitable.
"This is shows a general problem with nanotechnology right now," Tour
says. "We only have crude tools and that slows development down."
http://www.newscientisttech.com/article.ns?id=dn9004&feedId=online-news_rss20
Pshaw, it's a light weight......
Hah!
Light <-> photons!
Weight <-> wait!
:)
"Nano Nano"
"Work & Mini"
Nork & Mini.
--
Fundies and trolls are cordially invited to
shove a wooden cross up their arses and rotate
at a high rate of speed. I trust you'll
be 'blessed' with a plethora of splinters.
.
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| User: "Michael Gray" |
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| Title: Re: News: The ultimate Compact Car. Intelligent Design at its best. |
21 Apr 2006 09:55:16 PM |
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On Fri, 21 Apr 2006 14:33:10 -0700, stoney <stoney@the.net> wrote:
- Refer: <csji42100adgu3hlul80v6j1ph58a6ptgt@4ax.com>
On Fri, 21 Apr 2006 11:58:36 +0930, Michael Gray
<fleetg@newsguy.spam.com> wrote in alt.atheism
On Thu, 20 Apr 2006 09:15:12 -0700, stoney <stoney@the.net> wrote:
- Refer: <kqcf4258qf74e91oo6r0ikmu9opq0bfsa1@4ax.com>
On Thu, 20 Apr 2006 12:11:24 +0930, Michael Gray
<fleetg@newsguy.spam.com> wrote in alt.atheism
On Wed, 19 Apr 2006 09:13:48 -0700, stoney <stoney@the.net> wrote:
- Refer: <adoc42tji3vd9mt75bhsa5m5kvv91siuao@4ax.com>
On Sun, 16 Apr 2006 13:13:43 +0930, Michael Gray
<fleetg@newsguy.spam.com> wrote in alt.atheism
[]
A non-metal track should allow the engine to work, but this makes
observing the car in action problematic as the scanning tunnelling
microscope normally used needs a metal base. Other forms of microscopy
either do not have the power to resolve the car properly, Tour says,
or require the use of other surfaces that are unsuitable.
"This is shows a general problem with nanotechnology right now," Tour
says. "We only have crude tools and that slows development down."
http://www.newscientisttech.com/article.ns?id=dn9004&feedId=online-news_rss20
Pshaw, it's a light weight......
Hah!
Light <-> photons!
Weight <-> wait!
:)
"Nano Nano"
"Work & Mini"
Nork & Mini.
That option briefly flitted through my (b)leary conscience, before it
dismissed itself as being at tad too puerile...
(Presses ENTER with smug look on dial!
Exit, stage left. ;)
--
Michael Gray.
Founding Member and Doorman,
Earthquack's 666 Club.
EAC Trainee Inquisitor.
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| User: "stoney" |
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23 Apr 2006 05:31:31 PM |
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On Sat, 22 Apr 2006 12:25:16 +0930, Michael Gray
<fleetg@newsguy.spam.com> wrote in alt.atheism
On Fri, 21 Apr 2006 14:33:10 -0700, stoney <stoney@the.net> wrote:
- Refer: <csji42100adgu3hlul80v6j1ph58a6ptgt@4ax.com>
On Fri, 21 Apr 2006 11:58:36 +0930, Michael Gray
<fleetg@newsguy.spam.com> wrote in alt.atheism
On Thu, 20 Apr 2006 09:15:12 -0700, stoney <stoney@the.net> wrote:
- Refer: <kqcf4258qf74e91oo6r0ikmu9opq0bfsa1@4ax.com>
On Thu, 20 Apr 2006 12:11:24 +0930, Michael Gray
<fleetg@newsguy.spam.com> wrote in alt.atheism
On Wed, 19 Apr 2006 09:13:48 -0700, stoney <stoney@the.net> wrote:
- Refer: <adoc42tji3vd9mt75bhsa5m5kvv91siuao@4ax.com>
On Sun, 16 Apr 2006 13:13:43 +0930, Michael Gray
<fleetg@newsguy.spam.com> wrote in alt.atheism
[]
A non-metal track should allow the engine to work, but this makes
observing the car in action problematic as the scanning tunnelling
microscope normally used needs a metal base. Other forms of microscopy
either do not have the power to resolve the car properly, Tour says,
or require the use of other surfaces that are unsuitable.
"This is shows a general problem with nanotechnology right now," Tour
says. "We only have crude tools and that slows development down."
http://www.newscientisttech.com/article.ns?id=dn9004&feedId=online-news_rss20
Pshaw, it's a light weight......
Hah!
Light <-> photons!
Weight <-> wait!
:)
"Nano Nano"
"Work & Mini"
Nork & Mini.
That option briefly flitted through my (b)leary conscience, before it
dismissed itself as being at tad too puerile...
(Presses ENTER with smug look on dial!
Exit, stage left. ;)
ala wile e coyote....
--
Fundies and trolls are cordially invited to
shove a wooden cross up their arses and rotate
at a high rate of speed. I trust you'll
be 'blessed' with a plethora of splinters.
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| User: "Michael Gray" |
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23 Apr 2006 09:24:30 PM |
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On Sun, 23 Apr 2006 15:31:31 -0700, stoney <stoney@the.net> wrote:
- Refer: <b10o421u9ov0pbfbktkdja67018jdlpopu@4ax.com>
On Sat, 22 Apr 2006 12:25:16 +0930, Michael Gray
<fleetg@newsguy.spam.com> wrote in alt.atheism
On Fri, 21 Apr 2006 14:33:10 -0700, stoney <stoney@the.net> wrote:
- Refer: <csji42100adgu3hlul80v6j1ph58a6ptgt@4ax.com>
On Fri, 21 Apr 2006 11:58:36 +0930, Michael Gray
<fleetg@newsguy.spam.com> wrote in alt.atheism
On Thu, 20 Apr 2006 09:15:12 -0700, stoney <stoney@the.net> wrote:
- Refer: <kqcf4258qf74e91oo6r0ikmu9opq0bfsa1@4ax.com>
On Thu, 20 Apr 2006 12:11:24 +0930, Michael Gray
<fleetg@newsguy.spam.com> wrote in alt.atheism
On Wed, 19 Apr 2006 09:13:48 -0700, stoney <stoney@the.net> wrote:
- Refer: <adoc42tji3vd9mt75bhsa5m5kvv91siuao@4ax.com>
On Sun, 16 Apr 2006 13:13:43 +0930, Michael Gray
<fleetg@newsguy.spam.com> wrote in alt.atheism
[]
A non-metal track should allow the engine to work, but this makes
observing the car in action problematic as the scanning tunnelling
microscope normally used needs a metal base. Other forms of microscopy
either do not have the power to resolve the car properly, Tour says,
or require the use of other surfaces that are unsuitable.
"This is shows a general problem with nanotechnology right now," Tour
says. "We only have crude tools and that slows development down."
http://www.newscientisttech.com/article.ns?id=dn9004&feedId=online-news_rss20
Pshaw, it's a light weight......
Hah!
Light <-> photons!
Weight <-> wait!
:)
"Nano Nano"
"Work & Mini"
Nork & Mini.
That option briefly flitted through my (b)leary conscience, before it
dismissed itself as being at tad too puerile...
(Presses ENTER with smug look on dial!
Exit, stage left. ;)
ala wile e coyote....
Snagglepuss!!!
http://www.alohadude.net/content/snagglepuss.jpg
--
Michael Gray.
Founding Member and Doorman,
Earthquack's 666 Club.
EAC Trainee Inquisitor.
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24 Apr 2006 11:54:45 AM |
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On Mon, 24 Apr 2006 11:54:30 +0930, Michael Gray
<fleetg@newsguy.spam.com> wrote in alt.atheism
On Sun, 23 Apr 2006 15:31:31 -0700, stoney <stoney@the.net> wrote:
- Refer: <b10o421u9ov0pbfbktkdja67018jdlpopu@4ax.com>
On Sat, 22 Apr 2006 12:25:16 +0930, Michael Gray
<fleetg@newsguy.spam.com> wrote in alt.atheism
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A non-metal track should allow the engine to work, but this makes
observing the car in action problematic as the scanning tunnelling
microscope normally used needs a metal base. Other forms of microscopy
either do not have the power to resolve the car properly, Tour says,
or require the use of other surfaces that are unsuitable.
"This is shows a general problem with nanotechnology right now," Tour
says. "We only have crude tools and that slows development down."
http://www.newscientisttech.com/article.ns?id=dn9004&feedId=online-news_rss20
Pshaw, it's a light weight......
Hah!
Light <-> photons!
Weight <-> wait!
:)
"Nano Nano"
"Work & Mini"
Nork & Mini.
That option briefly flitted through my (b)leary conscience, before it
dismissed itself as being at tad too puerile...
(Presses ENTER with smug look on dial!
Exit, stage left. ;)
ala wile e coyote....
Snagglepuss!!!
http://www.alohadude.net/content/snagglepuss.jpg
Via Wiley's directions...
--
Fundies and trolls are cordially invited to
shove a wooden cross up their arses and rotate
at a high rate of speed. I trust you'll
be 'blessed' with a plethora of splinters.
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