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3-D printing turns nanomachines into life-size workers

  • Written by Chenfeng Ke, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Dartmouth College
imageMolecular machines are ready to join forces and take on real-world work.Chenfeng Ke, CC BY-ND

Nanomachines are tiny molecules – more than 10,000 lined up side by side would be narrower than the diameter of a human hair – that can move when they receive an external stimulus. They can already deliver medication within a body and serve as c...

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