Talk:Single-molecule electric motor

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Did you know... that the world's smallest electric motor is made up of a single molecule and can be driven at up to one million revolutions per second?

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AAARRGG this article does not even mention a date * nor dates for the previous creations mentioned * 75.147.48.65 (talk) 18:01, 14 September 2011 (UTC)grumpy[reply]

What kind of microscope?[edit]

The article says current is fed to the motor by a scanning electron microscope, but the mention of a tip suggests that it's a scanning tunneling microscope instead. --Hieronymus Illinensis (talk) 23:57, 14 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The abstract of the article states that the motor is being driven by a scanning tunnelling microscope, so reference to a tip is justified. Forhamlet1 (talk) 00:27, 19 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]