Brownian motors

Physics Today

Volumn 55, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 33-39

  Astumian, R Dean ^a   Hänggi, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUGSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; MODULATION; REYNOLDS NUMBER;

BROWNIAN MOTORS;

LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS;

EID: 0036855051     PISSN: 00319228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1535005     Document Type: Article

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