Nanoscale rotary motors driven by electron tunneling

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 101, Issue 18, 2008, Pages

  Wang, Boyang ^a   Vuković, Lela ^a   Král, Petr ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBES; DYNAMICS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRON TUNNELING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; ROTATING MACHINERY;

ELECTRIC DIPOLES; EXTERNAL ELECTRIC FIELDS; METALLIC ELECTRODES; MODEL SYSTEMS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; MOLECULAR MOTORS; NANOSCALE; ROTARY MOTORS; UNDER LOADS;

MOTORS;

EID: 55849135779     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.186808     Document Type: Article

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