The tiniest Lego: a tale of nanoscale motors, rotors, switches and pumps

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• Publication year

  2015

• Venue

  Nature

• Publication date

  2015-09-02

• Fields of study

  Physics, Materials Science, Chemistry, Engineering, Medicine

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  DOI 10.1038/525018aPMID 26333452
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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