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Gears about 10 micrometres wide made from etched silicon, viewed with an electron microscope<\/p>\n

Gan Wang \/ Myfab Chalmers<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n

Minuscule gears that are thinner than a human hair and powered by light could be used to study human cells or power tiny, complex robots.<\/p>\n

Gear systems often struggle to work at a size below a tenth of a millimetre, about the thickness of an average piece of paper, because it is difficult to miniaturise the power systems that drive them. Some simple systems, such as rotors built from DNA<\/a>, can be built at nanoscales, but these are bespoke and\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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