Dual-chirality helical nanobelts: Linear-to-rotary motion converters for three-dimensional microscopy

L Dong, L Zhang, BE Kratochvil… - Journal of …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… various forms of motions will play an important role in future nanosystem applications.
Motion converters have been widely used for millennia to transmit actuator motion at different …

Nanorobotic Manipulation of Helical Nanostructures

L Dong, L Zhang, M Yu… - Micro‐and …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Motion converters have been widely used for millennia to transmit actuator motion at … (c)
A linear motion to rotary motion converter using a DCHNB. (d) A transmission converting …

Nanohelices as motion converters

BE Kratochvil, L Dong, L Zhang… - 2008 IEEE/RSJ …, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
motion based on nanohelices [3]. Helical nanobelts have the capacity to convert rotating
magnetic fields to translational motion … linear-to-rotation converters with a high conversion ratio …

Controllable rotational inversion in nanostructures with dual chirality

L Dai, KD Zhu, W Shen, X Huang, L Zhang, A Goriely - Nanoscale, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
motion of a normal dual-chirality helical nanohelix with the same parameters as those of the
binormal SiGe/Si/Cr nanohelix. It … the actuation of the motion converters. A spring constant of …

Chiroptically active metallic nanohelices with helical anisotropy

Z Huang, J Liu - Small, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
… To make this method generally adapted to generate NHs made from various metals,
nanohelix electrochemical lithography is introduced, where the Pd NHs function as a second …

Geometric nonlinearity and mechanical anisotropy in strained helical nanoribbons

Z Chen - Nanoscale, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
… in SiGe/Si and SiGe/Si/Cr nanohelices. Specifically, as the width … of strained semiconductor
nanohelices change under certain … , inductors, 18 and motion converters. Interestingly, when …

Materials and 3D designs of helix nanostructures for chirality at optical frequencies

A Passaseo, M Esposito, M Cuscunà… - Advanced Optical …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
… The onset of plasmonic resonance in metal nanohelices has been described within the …
With this model, they calculated the electric field distribution along an Ag nanohelix, excited by …

Soccer at the microscale: Small robots with big impact

SL Firebaugh, JA Piepmeier, CD McGray - Robot Soccer, 2010 - books.google.com
… to the scratch drive actuator in order to switch between forward motion and turning motion. …
There are two phases to the motion, the contraction phase, in which there is rapid motion of …

3D metaphotonic nanostructures with intrinsic chirality

M Qiu, L Zhang, Z Tang, W Jin… - Advanced Functional …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
… Furthermore, such resonances are mainly determined by the motion patterns of the electrons
… a) The simulated transmittance and current distributions of gold nanohelices under the …

Plasmonic nanostructure engineering with shadow growth

JH Han, D Kim, J Kim, G Kim, P Fischer… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
… with mobile adatoms, such as metallic 2-turn nanohelices with a total height <100 nm (bottom …
Through co-evaporation of the source material with the dopant together, Ag nanohelices