World's smallest electric motor measures just 1 nanometre across!

• Chemists at Tufts have developed the world's smallest electric motor made from a single molecule, a development that may potentially create a new class of devices with applications ranging from medicine to engineering.
• In the new study, the Tufts team reports an electric motor that measures a mere 1 nanometre across, groundbreaking work considering that the current world record is a 200 nanometre motor. A single strand of human hair is about 60,000 nanometres wide.
• "We have been able to show that you can provide electricity to a single molecule and get it to do something that is not just random." The study was recently published in the journal Nature Nanotechnology.