The Change Mariner: Paint changes colour in tiny world of molecular robot

July 9, 2003

Paint changes colour in tiny world of molecular robot

Clothes that shrink to fit the wearer and paint that changes colour in the dark moved a step closer to reality yesterday as researchers unveiled the latest breakthrough in nanotechnology.
Scientists at Edinburgh University, working with a team in Bologna, announced they had produced "remote control" molecular motors - robots the size of a grain of sand that can spin when directed by a beam of light.

So far, scientists have only managed to design molecular motors that could move in straight lines. The new research is unveiled in this week's edition of the science journal Nature.

Posted by Bob King at July 9, 2003 6:53 PM
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