Molecular machines could be capable of quantum mechanical tunnelling – something normally seen in very tiny particles like electrons and atoms. That’s the claim of researchers at the University of California, Riverside who have made and studied "two-legged" and "four-legged" nanomachines.
The tunnelling behaviour has never before been seen in devices so big and is a fundamental departure from mechanics in the macroscopic world, says team leader Ludwig Bartels. It also means that such machines could move much faster than expected.
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