(Nanowerk News) Classical motors convert a form of energy such as heat into mechanical work. Can these laws also be transferred to a miniature machine that consists of only a single cesium atom and ...

A team of scientists has built a heat engine out of a single atom. Heat engines, like steam engines or internal combustion engines, convert heat into motion. To create the minuscule engine, physicist ...

The engine works by taking heat from the hot reservoir, converting some of it into useful work, and rejecting the remaining ...

Too much background noise is usually guaranteed to disrupt work. But FQXi-funded physicists have developed a micro-scale engine–made from a glass bead–that can not only withstand the distracting ...

“We’ve developed the world’s smallest steam engine, or to be more precise the smallest Stirling engine, and found that the machine really does perform work,” said Clemens Bechinger, a physicist at the ...

Scientists are working on a heat engine that consists of just a single ion. Such a nano-heat engine could be far more efficient than, for example, a car engine or a coal-fired power plant. Scientists ...