{"id":185430,"date":"2024-03-19T10:32:24","date_gmt":"2024-03-19T15:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/molecular-crystal-motors-move-like-microbes-when-exposed-to-light"},"modified":"2024-03-19T10:32:24","modified_gmt":"2024-03-19T15:32:24","slug":"molecular-crystal-motors-move-like-microbes-when-exposed-to-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/molecular-crystal-motors-move-like-microbes-when-exposed-to-light","title":{"rendered":"Molecular crystal motors move like microbes when exposed to light"},"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\/X8NsflS7854?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>At first glance, Rabih O. Al-Kaysi\u2019s molecular motors look like the microscopic worms you\u2019d see in a drop of pond water. But these wriggling ribbons are not alive; they\u2019re devices made from crystallized molecules that perform coordinated movements when exposed to light. With continued development, Al-Kaysi and colleagues say, their tiny machines could be used by physicians as drug-delivery robots or engineered into arrays that direct the flow of water around submarines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At first glance, Rabih O. Al-Kaysi\u2019s molecular motors look like the microscopic worms you\u2019d see in a drop of pond water. But these wriggling ribbons are not alive; they\u2019re devices made from crystallized molecules that perform coordinated movements when exposed to light. With continued development, Al-Kaysi and colleagues say, their tiny machines could be used [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-nanotechnology","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185430","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=185430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}