Nanomotor

The nanomotor could be used as a switch in nanoscale magnetic memory devices; the nanodrill could work as a pump in a tiny device filled with fluid. ❋ Tracy Staedter (2008)

Steven Bailey and colleagues from Lancaster University have created both a nanomotor (a) and a nanodrill (b) that could work as tiny motors in nanosized machines. ❋ Tracy Staedter (2008)

This achievement is "an important contribution to the field of nanomachines," Complutense University of Madrid nanomotor expert Jose Pingarron says. ❋ Tudor Vieru (2010)

The metamaterial-style structure also induced orbital angular momentum on the light that in turn imposed a torque on the nanomotor. ❋ Unknown (2010)

What Wang and his team did was basically create a type of nanomotor that required no additional chemicals or fuel to work. ❋ Unknown (2010)

When illuminated with a similar laser beam but at the larger wavelength, the nanomotor rotated at the same rate of speed but in a clockwise direction. ❋ Unknown (2010)

A nanomotor is similarly sized and operates at the smallest of small scales. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Filmed through water, a silica microdisk embedded with a gold, gammadion-shaped light mill nanomotor rotates in one direction under illumination from laser light at 810 nanometers wavelength. ❋ Unknown (2010)

This STM image shows a gammadion gold light mill nanomotor embedded in a silica microdisk. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Zhang and his colleagues fashioned a gammadion-shaped light mill type of nanomotor out of gold that was structurally designed to maximize the interactions between light and matter. ❋ Unknown (2010)