Motorised microscopic matchsticks move in water with sense of direction
Tuesday, September 10, 2013 - 06:30
in Physics & Chemistry
(Phys.org) —Chemists, physicists and computer scientists at the University of Warwick have come together to devise a new powerful and very versatile way of controlling the speed and direction of motion of microscopic structures in water using what they have dubbed chemically 'motorised microscopic matchsticks'.