Carbon nanotube electron windmills: A novel design for nanomotors

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 100, Issue 25, 2008, Pages

  Bailey, S W D ^a   Amanatidis, I ^a   Lambert, C J ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; DYNAMIC ANALYSIS; MILLING MACHINES; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOPORES; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOTUBES; STATIC ANALYSIS; TUBES (COMPONENTS); WIND POWER;

AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY (APS); APPLIED (CO); CHIRAL NANOTUBE; DOUBLE-WALLED CNT (DWNT); DRIVE MECHANISM; FRICTIONAL FORCES; NANO TUBE; NANOMOTORS; NOVEL DESIGN; POTENTIAL DIFFERENCE; STATIC AND DYNAMIC;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 46449122550     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.256802     Document Type: Article

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