The World's Smallest Car

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The World's Smallest Car

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Using the parts inside a single molecule, scientists have constructed the world's smallest car. It has a chassis, axles and a pivoting suspension. The wheels are buckyballs, spheres of pure carbon containing 60 atoms apiece.

It'd be a real squeeze to take it for a spin, however.

The whole car is no more than 4 nanometers across. That's slightly wider than a strand of DNA. A human hair is about 80,000 nanometers thick.
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:oops:

Star Trek, f-ing Star Trek. :oops:
 
And the point of it is? Yeah its cool, as stuff like this always is, I just wish articles would point out the usefulness. It trys with the "nanotrucks" but then again, whats the freaking point of using those for what they said!
 
thats just what i need... you can park ANYWHERE and you wont get ticket cause cops wont see it....


tricky bastards, those scientists.... i guess they payed some hefty fines before they decided to make this one...;)
 
ChryZ said:
Is there a diesel version?
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I think a molecule of whatever fuel you'd use is too big to even get into that thing!! :oops: Which by the way is still missing an engine. I'm quite disappointed actually.

;)
 
london-boy said:
I think a molecule of whatever fuel you'd use is too big to even get into that thing!! :oops: Which by the way is still missing an engine. I'm quite disappointed actually.

;)
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why disappointed? :cool:
 
Skrying said:
And the point of it is? Yeah its cool, as stuff like this always is, I just wish articles would point out the usefulness. It trys with the "nanotrucks" but then again, whats the freaking point of using those for what they said!
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"We'd eventually like to move objects and do work in a controlled fashion on the molecular scale, and these vehicles are great test beds for that," said James Tour, a Rice University research who co-led the work. "They're helping us learn the ground rules."
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