Columbia engineers manipulate a buckyball by inserting a single water molecule
Columbia engineers manipulate a buckyball by inserting a single water molecule - Columbia Engineering researchers have developed a technique to isolate a single water molecule inside a buckyball and drive motion of the "big" nonpolar ball through the encapsulated "small" polar H2O molecule, a controlling transport mechanism in a nanochannel under an external electric field. This method could lead to new applications including effective ways to control drug delivery and to assemble C60-based functional 3D structures at the nanoscale level.(10.1103/Physics.6.43)
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