Invented nanoelectronic turbine
Designers from nanotech have designed a model of a nanoelectronic turbine , which rotates from the passing current and can move individual atoms.
A nanoturbine has a primitive form: two nanotubes, with ends attached to the contacts, and between them another carbon nanotube 10 nm long and 1 nm in diameter. If a potential difference arises between contacts, the flow of electrons rushes from one contact to another, and a kind of rotor begins to rotate under the influence of electromagnetic forces that are stronger than interatomic forces (so far only in theory). By design, this is the simplest turbine of all that had been invented earlier.
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Such a motor can be used to perfectly move individual atoms from one contact to another. Thus, it is possible to create complex molecular structures under computer control. Moreover, individual atoms can be represented as data bits, and then such nanoturbines can even play the role of transistors or accumulators of information in electronic devices.
So far, the performance of the prototype is confirmed only by computer simulation, which was conducted by scientists from the University of Lancaster (UK). The computer model shows that electromagnetic forces are indeed capable of breaking interatomic bonds between the walls of the rotor and external nanotubes. There are already enthusiasts who are ready to take up the creation of a physical model of "nanoprinter".
via New Scientist
A nanoturbine has a primitive form: two nanotubes, with ends attached to the contacts, and between them another carbon nanotube 10 nm long and 1 nm in diameter. If a potential difference arises between contacts, the flow of electrons rushes from one contact to another, and a kind of rotor begins to rotate under the influence of electromagnetic forces that are stronger than interatomic forces (so far only in theory). By design, this is the simplest turbine of all that had been invented earlier.
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Such a motor can be used to perfectly move individual atoms from one contact to another. Thus, it is possible to create complex molecular structures under computer control. Moreover, individual atoms can be represented as data bits, and then such nanoturbines can even play the role of transistors or accumulators of information in electronic devices.
So far, the performance of the prototype is confirmed only by computer simulation, which was conducted by scientists from the University of Lancaster (UK). The computer model shows that electromagnetic forces are indeed capable of breaking interatomic bonds between the walls of the rotor and external nanotubes. There are already enthusiasts who are ready to take up the creation of a physical model of "nanoprinter".
via New Scientist
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/27574/
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