Nanotechnology in combination with carbon can lead to many things but one of the most important items - carbon nanotubes. With the help of these carbon nanotubes, a team of researchers from the UAB Research Park managed to create the first nanomotor powered by temperature changes.

Thanks to this breakthrough, in the future the developers will be able to design nano-devices that will perform mechanical tasks that will be applied in biomedicine or to some futuristic materials. The nanomotor is based on carbon nanotubes and in addition, it’s covered by a tiny concentric nanotube acting like a rotor.

The movements of the nanomotor are controlled by applying various temperatures at the extremities of a longer nanotube. The precision of the movements is of less than the diameter of an atom. The researchers are extremely confident that this technique will be applied in many other domains in the future because of its huge potential in nanotechnology.