{"id":17632,"date":"2015-09-21T05:48:46","date_gmt":"2015-09-21T12:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/atom-sized-construction-could-shrink-future-gadgets"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:22:54","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:22:54","slug":"atom-sized-construction-could-shrink-future-gadgets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/atom-sized-construction-could-shrink-future-gadgets","title":{"rendered":"Atom-Sized Construction Could Shrink Future Gadgets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/atom-sized-construction-could-shrink-future-gadgets.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The U.S. military doesn\u2019t just build big, scary tanks and giant warplanes; it\u2019s also interested in teeny, tiny stuff. The Pentagon\u2019s latest research project aims to improve today\u2019s technologies by shrinking them down to microscopic size.<\/p>\n<p>The recently launched Atoms to Product (A2P) program aims to develop <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/22804-worlds-thinnest-transistor-is-two-thirds-complete.html\">atom-size materials<\/a> to build state-of-the-art military and consumer products. These tiny manufacturing methods would work at scales 100,000 times smaller than those currently being used to build new technologies, according to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA.<\/p>\n<p>The tiny, high-tech materials of the future could be used to build things like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/46931-darpa-military-tech-gadgets.html\">hummingbird-size drones<\/a> and super-accurate (and super-small) atomic clocks \u2014 two projects already spearheaded by DARPA. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/40450-coolest-darpa-projects.html\">Humanoid Robots to Flying Cars: 10 Coolest DARPA Projects<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/47694-darpa-nanomaterials-program.html?cmpid=514631_20140905_31037866\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. military doesn\u2019t just build big, scary tanks and giant warplanes; it\u2019s also interested in teeny, tiny stuff. The Pentagon\u2019s latest research project aims to improve today\u2019s technologies by shrinking them down to microscopic size. The recently launched Atoms to Product (A2P) program aims to develop atom-size materials to build state-of-the-art military and consumer [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,1635,9,48,6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-materials","category-military","category-particle-physics","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17632","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=17632"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69505,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17632\/revisions\/69505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}