{"id":17627,"date":"2015-09-21T05:47:54","date_gmt":"2015-09-21T12:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/worlds-smallest-microphone-is-made-from-a-single-molecule"},"modified":"2017-06-04T11:38:01","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T18:38:01","slug":"worlds-smallest-microphone-is-made-from-a-single-molecule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/worlds-smallest-microphone-is-made-from-a-single-molecule","title":{"rendered":"World\u2019s smallest microphone is made from a single molecule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of scientists from Lund University in Sweden has figured out how to turn a single molecule into a microphone by making it capable of detecting the vibrations produced by sound waves.<\/p>\n<p>This minuscule microphone works by embedding a single molecule of a substance called dibenzoterrylene (DBT) in a tiny crystal of a hydrocarbon material called <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Anthracene\" target=\"_blank\">anthracene<\/a>. When the crystal is exposed to sound waves, the DBT molecule is disturbed by the vibrations, and it vibrates in response.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis movement changes the interaction between the electron clouds of DBT and anthracene, which ultimately result in a slight shift in DBT\u2019s fluorescence,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmodo.in\/science\/Scientists-Make-the-Worlds-Smallest-Microphone-From-a-Single-Molecule\/articleshow\/44139005.cms\" target=\"_blank\">explains Sarah Zhang at Gizmodo<\/a>. \u201cBy tracking the fluorescence of just a single molecule of DBT, the scientists could track the frequency of the sound.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/news\/20140310-26278.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of scientists from Lund University in Sweden has figured out how to turn a single molecule into a microphone by making it capable of detecting the vibrations produced by sound waves. This minuscule microphone works by embedding a single molecule of a substance called dibenzoterrylene (DBT) in a tiny crystal of a hydrocarbon [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17627","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17627"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64127,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17627\/revisions\/64127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}