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Fuelling movement at the nanoscale

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Autonomous propulsion of microparticles using catalytic olefin polymerization, and directional rotation of a molecule on a metal surface using electrons from the tip of a scanning tunnelling microscope.

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Figure 1: A microscale 'motor' powered by polymerization reactions.
Figure 2: A molecular rotor powered by electrons.

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  1. Ben Feringa is in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Groningen, 9747 AG Groningen, The Netherlands,

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Feringa, B. Fuelling movement at the nanoscale. Nature Chem 3, 915–916 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/nchem.1208

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