Atomic Scale Engines: Cars and Wheels

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 84, Issue 26, 2000, Pages 6058-6061

  Porto, Markus ^a   Urbakh, Michael ^a   Klafter, Joseph ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOTION CONTROL; ROTATION; VEHICLE WHEELS;

ATOMIC SCALE ENGINES;

AUTOMOBILE ENGINES;

EID: 0342955086     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.84.6058     Document Type: Article

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