{"id":155235,"date":"2023-01-12T06:22:55","date_gmt":"2023-01-12T12:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/now-on-the-molecular-scale-electric-motors"},"modified":"2023-01-12T06:22:55","modified_gmt":"2023-01-12T12:22:55","slug":"now-on-the-molecular-scale-electric-motors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/now-on-the-molecular-scale-electric-motors","title":{"rendered":"Now on the molecular scale: Electric motors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/now-on-the-molecular-scale-electric-motors2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Electric vehicles, powered by macroscopic electric motors, are increasingly prevalent on our streets and highways. These quiet and eco-friendly machines got their start nearly 200 years ago when physicists took the first tiny steps to bring electric motors into the world.<\/p>\n<p>Now a multidisciplinary team led by Northwestern University has made an electric motor you can\u2019t see with the naked eye: an <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/electric+motor\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">electric motor<\/a> on the molecular scale.<\/p>\n<p>This early work\u2014a motor that can convert <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/electrical+energy\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">electrical energy<\/a> into unidirectional motion at the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/molecular+level\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">molecular level <\/a>\u2014has implications for <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/materials+science\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">materials science<\/a> and particularly medicine, where the electric molecular motor could team up with biomolecular motors in the human body.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Electric vehicles, powered by macroscopic electric motors, are increasingly prevalent on our streets and highways. These quiet and eco-friendly machines got their start nearly 200 years ago when physicists took the first tiny steps to bring electric motors into the world. Now a multidisciplinary team led by Northwestern University has made an electric motor you [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}