{"id":127179,"date":"2021-09-03T17:24:59","date_gmt":"2021-09-04T00:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/researchers-use-organic-semiconductor-nanotubes-to-create-new-electrochemical-actuator"},"modified":"2021-09-03T17:24:59","modified_gmt":"2021-09-04T00:24:59","slug":"researchers-use-organic-semiconductor-nanotubes-to-create-new-electrochemical-actuator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/researchers-use-organic-semiconductor-nanotubes-to-create-new-electrochemical-actuator","title":{"rendered":"Researchers use organic semiconductor nanotubes to create new electrochemical actuator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-use-organic-semiconductor-nanotubes-to-create-new-electrochemical-actuator.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>University of Houston researchers are reporting a breakthrough in the field of materials science and engineering with the development of an electrochemical actuator that uses specialized organic semiconductor nanotubes (OSNTs).<\/p>\n<p>Currently in the early stages of development, the actuator will become a key part of research contributing to the future of robotic, bioelectronic and <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/biomedical+science\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">biomedical science<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cElectrochemical devices that transform <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/electrical+energy\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">electrical energy<\/a> to mechanical energy have potential use in numerous applications, ranging from soft robotics and micropumps to autofocus microlenses and bioelectronics,\u201d said Mohammad Reza Abidian, associate professor of biomedical engineering in the UH Cullen College of Engineering. He\u2019s the corresponding author of the article \u201cOrganic Semiconductor Nanotubes for Electrochemical Devices,\u201d published in the journal <i><i>Advanced Functional Materials<\/i>,<\/i> which details the discovery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>University of Houston researchers are reporting a breakthrough in the field of materials science and engineering with the development of an electrochemical actuator that uses specialized organic semiconductor nanotubes (OSNTs). Currently in the early stages of development, the actuator will become a key part of research contributing to the future of robotic, bioelectronic and biomedical [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry","category-nanotechnology","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127179","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}