Claims
- 1. A mechanochemical engine capable of converting chemical work to mechanical work, which comprises:
- a) a first pulley, attached to
- b) three concentric pulleys with said pulleys sharing a common axis;
- c) a second pulley, attached also to said three pulleys; and
- wherein said pulleys are attached by a strip or band of an elastomeric matrix capable of reversibly contracting and relaxing by an inverse temperature transition; and wherein said first pulley is immersed in a salt solution having a concentration which differs from a concentration of a bath in which the second pulley is immersed by at least 0.02 N.
- 2. The mechanochemical engine of claim 1, wherein said first, second and third concentric pulleys are made of metal, glass, wood, rubber or plastic.
- 3. The mechanochemical engine of claim 1, wherein said salt concentration difference of said two baths is different by at least 0.05 N.
- 4. The mechanochemical engine of claim 1, wherein said salt concentration difference of said two baths is different by at least 0.1 N.
- 5. The mechanical engine of claim 1, wherein said salt concentration difference of said two baths is different by about 11 N.
- 6. A mechanochemical engine capable of converting chemical work to mechanical work, which comprises:
- a) a first pulley, attached to
- b) three concentric pulleys with said pulleys sharing a common axis;
- c) a second pulley, attached also to said three pulleys; and
- wherein said pulleys are attached by a strip or band of an elastomeric material capable of reversibly contracting and relaxing by an inverse temperature transition; and wherein said first pulley is immersed in a medium favoring a first state of said chemical functionality and said second pulley is immersed in a medium favoring a second state of said chemical functionality, wherein the chemical potential difference between the two is at least 0.05 kcal/mole.
Parent Case Info
This is a division of application Ser. No. 07/410,018, filed Sept. 20, 1989, now U.S. Pat. No. 5,032,271; which application was a continuation of application Ser. No. 07/163,088, filed Mar. 2, 1988, now U.S. Pat. No. 4,924,689; which application was a continuation-in-part of both application Ser. No. 06/900,895, filed Aug. 27, 1986, now U.S. Pat. No. 4,783,523, and Ser. No. 07/062,557, filed 6-15-87 now U.S. Pat. No. 4,898,926.
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