Entropy-driven nano-motor
This is work due to Colin Denniston and Mark Robbins at JHU. It’s a miscible binary fluid with the wall/fluid interactions set such that the top wall is wet by the yellow particles and the bottom wall by the red. This drives a continuous fluid flow in the system, which spins the tiny nano-wheel.
Related publications
- Molecular and continuum boundary conditions for a miscible binary fluid, C. Denniston and M. O. Robbins, Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 178302 (2001). doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.87.178302