{"id":160403,"date":"2023-03-16T02:24:39","date_gmt":"2023-03-16T07:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/controlling-the-degree-of-twist-in-nanostructured-particles-for-the-first-time"},"modified":"2023-03-16T02:24:39","modified_gmt":"2023-03-16T07:24:39","slug":"controlling-the-degree-of-twist-in-nanostructured-particles-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/controlling-the-degree-of-twist-in-nanostructured-particles-for-the-first-time","title":{"rendered":"Controlling the degree of twist in nanostructured particles for the first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/controlling-the-degree-of-twist-in-nanostructured-particles-for-the-first-time3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Micron-sized \u201cbow ties,\u201d self-assembled from nanoparticles, form a variety of different curling shapes that can be precisely controlled, a research team led by the University of Michigan has shown.<\/p>\n<p>The development opens the way for easily producing materials that interact with twisted light, providing new tools for machine vision and producing medicines.<\/p>\n<p>While biology is full of twisted structures like DNA, known as chiral structures, the degree of twist is locked in\u2014trying to change it breaks the structure. Now, researchers can engineer the degree of twist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Micron-sized \u201cbow ties,\u201d self-assembled from nanoparticles, form a variety of different curling shapes that can be precisely controlled, a research team led by the University of Michigan has shown. The development opens the way for easily producing materials that interact with twisted light, providing new tools for machine vision and producing medicines. While biology is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160403","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=160403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}