25.01.2010 16:05 Uhr, Quelle: Engadget

Rice Univerity nanodragster rolls on carbon buckeyball wheels, lives life .0005 inch at a time

Drag racing and nanotech seemingly go together like peanut butter and very small rocks, but that hasn't stopped a team of researchers at Rice University from creating a microscopic car dubbed a "nanodragster." Its wheels are buckeyballs, the rear composed of 60 carbon atoms each, while its front wheels are made of p-carbonane. This gives the car more grip at the back, meaning it'll pop wheelies just like a real dragster -- though only when running on a road paved with gold. Even then it doesn't go very fast, just .0005 inches per hour, meaning for those 1,327,000 days it takes to cover

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