{"id":22695,"date":"2011-09-06T07:01:41","date_gmt":"2011-09-06T12:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=22695"},"modified":"2011-09-06T10:52:54","modified_gmt":"2011-09-06T15:52:54","slug":"in-science-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=22695","title":{"rendered":"In Science News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at Tufts have a single molecule that\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/science-environment-14763223\">acts as an electric motor<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; a tiny little armature and pivot:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The motor, made from a single molecule just a billionth of a metre across, is reported in Nature Nanotechnology&#8230;The butyl methyl sulphide molecule was placed on a clean copper surface, where its single sulphur atom acted as a pivot.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Its primary applications so far are a) driving the next generation of &#8220;Smart Car&#8221;, and b) powering the printer in Tom Bakk&#8217;s office.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at Tufts have a single molecule that\u00a0acts as an electric motor\u00a0&#8211; a tiny little armature and pivot: The motor, made from a single molecule just a billionth of a metre across, is reported in Nature Nanotechnology&#8230;The butyl methyl sulphide molecule was placed on a clean copper surface, where its single sulphur atom acted as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22695"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22709,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22695\/revisions\/22709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}