{"id":158005,"date":"2023-02-14T18:42:46","date_gmt":"2023-02-15T00:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/scientists-use-acoustic-holograms-to-form-particles-into-complex-3d-shapes"},"modified":"2023-02-14T18:42:46","modified_gmt":"2023-02-15T00:42:46","slug":"scientists-use-acoustic-holograms-to-form-particles-into-complex-3d-shapes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/scientists-use-acoustic-holograms-to-form-particles-into-complex-3d-shapes","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Use \u201cAcoustic Holograms\u201d To Form Particles Into Complex 3D Shapes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-use-acoustic-holograms-to-form-particles-into-complex-3d-shapes2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s exactly what researchers in Germany set out to do, making use of \u201cacoustic holograms\u201d to form distinct 3D shapes out of particles suspended in water \u2014 all in \u201cone shot,\u201d said study lead author Kai Melde, a researcher from the Max Planck Institute, in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mpg.de\/19859671\/0209-mefo-creating-3d-objects-with-sound-153070-x\" class=\"\">press release<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/sciadv.adf6182#F1\" class=\"\">study<\/a> on the work, published last week in the journal <i>Science Advances<\/i>, the researchers were able to create a helix and a figure 8 out of silica gel beads, assembled biological cells into spherical clumps, and even provided a compelling concept for forming the shape of a dove in future experiments.<\/p>\n<p>These acoustic holograms work by cleverly manipulating the pressure exerted by high frequency ultrasonic waves via the inexpensive use of a conventionally 3D-printed plate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That\u2019s exactly what researchers in Germany set out to do, making use of \u201cacoustic holograms\u201d to form distinct 3D shapes out of particles suspended in water \u2014 all in \u201cone shot,\u201d said study lead author Kai Melde, a researcher from the Max Planck Institute, in a press release. According to a study on the work, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1923,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-holograms","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158005","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\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}