{"id":19504,"date":"2015-11-22T09:47:51","date_gmt":"2015-11-22T17:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/scientists-create-single-molecule-nanosubmarines-powered-by-light"},"modified":"2017-04-24T23:39:46","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T06:39:46","slug":"scientists-create-single-molecule-nanosubmarines-powered-by-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/scientists-create-single-molecule-nanosubmarines-powered-by-light","title":{"rendered":"Scientists create single-molecule \u2018nanosubmarines\u2019 powered by light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-create-single-molecule-nanosubmarines-powered-by-light.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In science-fiction movies like <em>Fantastic Voyage<\/em> and <em>Innerspace<\/em>, plucky individuals board microscopic submersibles and take a trip inside the human body\u2026 where predictably dramatic consequences ensue.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re not quite there yet, but it seems we\u2019re getting close. Scientists in the US have developed nanosubmarines (aka. unimolecular submersible nanomachines) composed of a single molecule of just 244 atoms.<\/p>\n<p>The nanosubs are powered by ultraviolet light, with the motor\u2019s tail-like propeller \u2013 which operates more like a bacteria\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Flagellum\">flagellum<\/a> than a conventional motorised propeller \u2013 moving the nanomachines forward by 18 nanometres with each full revolution.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-create-single-molecule-nanosubmarines-powered-by-light\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In science-fiction movies like Fantastic Voyage and Innerspace, plucky individuals board microscopic submersibles and take a trip inside the human body\u2026 where predictably dramatic consequences ensue. We\u2019re not quite there yet, but it seems we\u2019re getting close. Scientists in the US have developed nanosubmarines (aka. unimolecular submersible nanomachines) composed of a single molecule of just [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1509,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19504","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=19504"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51292,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19504\/revisions\/51292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}