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ArticleScience advances2018

Visible light-gated reconfigurable rotary actuation of electric nanomotors.

Zexi Liang, Donglei Fan

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Article in Science advances, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

19 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Light-driven micro/nanobots.Nanophotonics (Berlin, Germany) · 2025
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  2. A roadmap for next-generation nanomotors.Nature nanotechnology · 2025
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  6. Swarm Autonomy: From Agent Functionalization to Machine Intelligence.Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) · 2025
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  10. Optothermal rotation of micro-/nano-objects.Chemical communications (Cambridge, England) · 2023
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  16. Magnetic Nanomotor-Based Maneuverable SERS Probe.Research (Washington, D.C.) · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Zexi LiangMaterials Science and Engineering Program, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-9309-4496
Donglei FanMaterials Science and Engineering Program, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Highly efficient and widely applicable working mechanisms that allow nanomaterials and devices to respond to external stimuli with controlled mechanical motions could make far-reaching impact to reconfigurable, adaptive, and robotic nanodevices. We report an innovative mechanism that allows multifold reconfiguration of mechanical rotation of semiconductor nanoentities in electric (

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PMID30225371
PMCPMC6140629

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