Spinning molecules to bits

Manish Gupta and Richard N. Zare ()
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Manish Gupta: Stanford University
Richard N. Zare: Stanford University

Nature, 2000, vol. 407, issue 6800, 33-34

Abstract: The speed at which a jet can travel is limited by the mechanical strength of the rotor blades — as the rotor speeds up there is some point at which it breaks. This can also happen at the molecular scale if individual molecules are made to spin fast enough.

Date: 2000
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DOI: 10.1038/35024192

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