{"id":100976,"date":"2020-01-16T21:44:43","date_gmt":"2020-01-17T05:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/nanoparticle-levitated"},"modified":"2020-01-16T21:44:43","modified_gmt":"2020-01-17T05:44:43","slug":"nanoparticle-levitated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/nanoparticle-levitated","title":{"rendered":"Nanoparticle levitated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nanoparticle-levitated.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A dumbbell-shaped nanoparticle powered just by the force and torque of light has become the world\u2019s fastest-spinning object.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists at Purdue University created the <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/object\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">object<\/a>, which revolves at 300 billion revolutions per minute. Or, put another way, half a million times faster than a dentist\u2019s drill.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the silica nanoparticle can serve as the world\u2019s most sensitive <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/torque\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">torque<\/a> detector, which researchers hope will be used to measure the friction created by <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/quantum+effects\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">quantum effects<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A dumbbell-shaped nanoparticle powered just by the force and torque of light has become the world\u2019s fastest-spinning object. Scientists at Purdue University created the object, which revolves at 300 billion revolutions per minute. Or, put another way, half a million times faster than a dentist\u2019s drill. In addition, the silica nanoparticle can serve as the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,4,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-nanotechnology","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}