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EPL
Volume 106, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
IOP Publishing Ltd
DOI: 10.1209/0295-5075/106/30004
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- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
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Like their larger micron-scale counterparts, Angstrom-scale chemically self-propelled motors use asymmetric catalytic activity to produce self-generated concentration gradients that lead to directed motion. Unlike their micron-scale counterparts, the sizes of Angstrom-scale motors are comparable to the solvent molecules in which they move, they are dominated by fluctuations, and they operate on very different time scales. These new features are studied using molecular dynamics simulations of small sphere dimer motors. We show that the ballistic regime is dominated by the thermal speed but the diffusion coefficients of these motors are orders of magnitude larger than inactive dimers. Such small motors may find applications in nano-confined systems or perhaps eventually in the cell. Copyright (C) EPLA, 2014
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