Via LiveScience.com, researchers at the National Institute for Materials Science at Tsukuba in Japan have created a micromachine out of a few molecules that can perform sixteen times more operations than a single transistor. Activated by a scanning tunneling microscope, the device is made of 17 molecules of duroquinone, and have already been used to control multiple nanomachines (created by other scientists), including the “world’s tiniest elevator.”
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