{"id":142153,"date":"2022-07-13T20:04:48","date_gmt":"2022-07-14T01:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/tiny-motors-take-a-big-step-forward"},"modified":"2022-07-13T20:04:48","modified_gmt":"2022-07-14T01:04:48","slug":"tiny-motors-take-a-big-step-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/tiny-motors-take-a-big-step-forward","title":{"rendered":"Tiny motors take a big step forward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hZD0-l31qko?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Motors are everywhere in our day-to-day lives\u2014from cars to washing machines. A futuristic scientific field is working on tiny motors that could power a network of nanomachines and replace some of the power sources we use in devices today.<\/p>\n<p>In new research published recently in <i>ACS Nano<\/i>, researchers from the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin created the first ever <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/solid+state\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">solid-state<\/a> optical <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/nanomotor\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">nanomotor<\/a>. All previous versions of these light-driven motors reside in a solution of some sort, which held back their potential for most real-world applications.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLife started in the water and eventually moved on land,\u201d said Yuebing Zheng, an associate professor in the Walker Department of Mechanical Engineering. \u201cWe\u2019ve made these micro nanomotors that have always lived in solution work on land, in a solid state.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Motors are everywhere in our day-to-day lives\u2014from cars to washing machines. A futuristic scientific field is working on tiny motors that could power a network of nanomachines and replace some of the power sources we use in devices today. In new research published recently in ACS Nano, researchers from the Cockrell School of Engineering at [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,1497,4,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-energy","category-nanotechnology","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142153","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=142153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}