Micromotors get supercharged with three 'engines' (IMAGE)

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Micromotors get supercharged with three 'engines'

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For the first time, a micromotor (shown above) was powered by "engines" that respond to three different stimuli: catalytic (bubbles), light and magnetic. Scale bar, 10 μm.

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Adapted from <i>Chemistry of Materials</i> <b>2020</b>, DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.9b04873

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