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Published online 23 January 2002 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news020121-4
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Microchain to drive ant-sized machines
Millimeter long silicon chain could move miniaturization forward.
A bicycle chain the size of a grain of salt may one day power devices such as the shutters of microsurveillance cameras. The microchain is the latest addition to the growing microtechnology toolkit.
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