{"id":124442,"date":"2021-06-29T23:22:28","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T06:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/speedy-nanorobots-could-someday-clean-up-soil-and-water-deliver-drugs"},"modified":"2021-06-29T23:22:28","modified_gmt":"2021-06-30T06:22:28","slug":"speedy-nanorobots-could-someday-clean-up-soil-and-water-deliver-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/speedy-nanorobots-could-someday-clean-up-soil-and-water-deliver-drugs","title":{"rendered":"Speedy nanorobots could someday clean up soil and water, deliver drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/speedy-nanorobots-could-someday-clean-up-soil-and-water-deliver-drugs.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>University of Colorado Boulder researchers have discovered that minuscule, self-propelled particles called \u201cnanoswimmers\u201d can escape from mazes as much as 20 times faster than other passive particles, paving the way for their use in everything from industrial clean-ups to medication delivery.<\/p>\n<p>The findings, published this week in the <i>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences<\/i>, describe how these tiny synthetic nanorobots are incredibly effective at escaping cavities within maze-like environments. These nanoswimmers could one day be used to remediate contaminated soil, improve water filtration or even deliver drugs to targeted areas of the body, like within dense tissues.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the discovery of an entirely new phenomenon that points to a broad potential range of applications,\u201d said Daniel Schwartz, senior author of the paper and Glenn L. Murphy Endowed Professor of chemical and biological engineering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>University of Colorado Boulder researchers have discovered that minuscule, self-propelled particles called \u201cnanoswimmers\u201d can escape from mazes as much as 20 times faster than other passive particles, paving the way for their use in everything from industrial clean-ups to medication delivery. The findings, published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry","category-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124442","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\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}