Definition of "nanomotor" [nanomotor]

• A nanoscale motor (noun)

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• "The nanomotor could be used as a switch in nanoscale magnetic memory devices; the nanodrill could work as a pump in a tiny device filled with fluid."
• "Steven Bailey and colleagues from Lancaster University have created both a nanomotor (a) and a nanodrill (b) that could work as tiny motors in nanosized machines."
• "Zhang and his colleagues fashioned a gammadion-shaped light mill type of nanomotor out of gold that was structurally designed to maximize the interactions between light and matter."