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Micro-machines can get boost from UV rays

Published: Dec. 24, 2002 at 1:00 AM

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EDINBURGH, Scotland, Dec. 24 (UPI) -- Microscopic engines that will drive the devices of the future can be sent into overdrive with pulses of ultraviolet light, an international research team reports. A booster using UV light could propel rotors a tenth the size of viruses to operate pulleys in synthetic muscles.

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