{"id":19392,"date":"2015-11-17T17:47:48","date_gmt":"2015-11-18T01:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/speedy-submarine-is-made-of-a-single-molecule"},"modified":"2017-04-24T23:44:45","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T06:44:45","slug":"speedy-submarine-is-made-of-a-single-molecule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/speedy-submarine-is-made-of-a-single-molecule","title":{"rendered":"Speedy Submarine Is Made Of A Single Molecule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/speedy-submarine-is-made-of-a-single-molecule.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s made of just 244 atoms.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>In the nearly 400 years since the first submarine was invented, these underwater machines have become incredibly sophisticated. They\u2019re <a href=\"http:\/\/www.popsci.com\/north-korea-probably-launched-missile-submarine\">armed<\/a> and they\u2019re <a href=\"http:\/\/www.popsci.com\/india-undocks-first-stealth-submarine\">really stealthy<\/a>. We\u2019re even planning on sending subs to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.popsci.com\/nasa-wants-send-nuclear-sub-saturns-moon-titan\">oceans on distant moons<\/a>. Trippy.<\/p>\n<p>But now, a submarine is going where no submarine has gone before. To the molecular level. In a <a href=\"http:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/doi\/10.1021\/acs.nanolett.5b03764\">paper<\/a> published this month in <em>NanoLetters<\/em>, researchers announced that they\u2019ve invented a submarine so small that it\u2019s made out of a single molecule.<\/p>\n<p>The submarine is made of just 244 atoms, and can move through <a href=\"http:\/\/www.futurity.org\/nanotechnology-submarine-1049722\/\">fluids with molecules of approximately the same size all around it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.popsci.com\/speedy-submarine-is-made-single-molecule?src=SOC&dom=fb\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s made of just 244 atoms. In the nearly 400 years since the first submarine was invented, these underwater machines have become incredibly sophisticated. They\u2019re armed and they\u2019re really stealthy. We\u2019re even planning on sending subs to oceans on distant moons. Trippy. But now, a submarine is going where no submarine has gone before. To [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19392","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=19392"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51309,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19392\/revisions\/51309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}