{"id":136440,"date":"2022-03-04T19:05:20","date_gmt":"2022-03-05T03:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/scientists-3d-print-microscopic-star-trek-spaceship-that-moves-on-its-own"},"modified":"2022-03-04T19:05:20","modified_gmt":"2022-03-05T03:05:20","slug":"scientists-3d-print-microscopic-star-trek-spaceship-that-moves-on-its-own","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/scientists-3d-print-microscopic-star-trek-spaceship-that-moves-on-its-own","title":{"rendered":"Scientists 3D print microscopic Star Trek spaceship that moves on its own"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-3d-print-microscopic-star-trek-spaceship-that-moves-on-its-own2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Circa 2020 o.o!<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A team of physicists at a university in the Netherlands have 3D-printed a microscopic version of the USS Voyager, an Intrepid-class starship from Star Trek.<\/p>\n<p>The miniature Voyager, which measures 15 micrometers (0.015 millimeters) long, is part of a <a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.rsc.org\/en\/content\/articlelanding\/2020\/sm\/d0sm01320j#!divAbstract\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\">project<\/a> researchers at Leiden University conducted to understand how shape affects the motion and interactions of microswimmers.<\/p>\n<p>Microswimmers are small particles that can move through liquid on their own by interacting with their environment through chemical reactions. The platinum coating on the microswimmers reacts to a hydrogen peroxide solution they are placed in, and that propels them through the liquid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circa 2020 o.o! A team of physicists at a university in the Netherlands have 3D-printed a microscopic version of the USS Voyager, an Intrepid-class starship from Star Trek. The miniature Voyager, which measures 15 micrometers (0.015 millimeters) long, is part of a project researchers at Leiden University conducted to understand how shape affects the motion [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,19,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-chemistry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136440","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=136440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}