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Construction and Operation of a Light-driven Gold Nanorod Rotary Motor System
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Catalytic nanomotors: remote-controlled autonomous movement of striped metallic nanorods
Timothy R Kline1, Walter F Paxton, Thomas E Mallouk
1Department of Chemistry, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA.
Angewandte Chemie (International Ed. in English)
|December 22, 2004
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