Topic: SCIENCE - on December 13, 2011 at 2:29:00 PM CET
Scientists Create World's Smallest Steam Engine
What would be a case for the repair shop for a car engine is completely normal for a micro engine. If it sputters, this is caused by the thermal motions of the smallest particles, which interfere with its running. Researchers at the University of Stuttgart and the Stuttgart-based Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems have now observed this with a heat engine on the micrometre scale.
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