{"id":200333,"date":"2024-11-28T03:33:37","date_gmt":"2024-11-28T09:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/nanostructures-pave-the-way-for-advanced-robotics-and-mini-dinosaurs"},"modified":"2024-11-28T03:33:37","modified_gmt":"2024-11-28T09:33:37","slug":"nanostructures-pave-the-way-for-advanced-robotics-and-mini-dinosaurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/nanostructures-pave-the-way-for-advanced-robotics-and-mini-dinosaurs","title":{"rendered":"Nanostructures pave the way for advanced robotics\u2014and mini dinosaurs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nanostructures-pave-the-way-for-advanced-robotics-and-mini-dinosaurs2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the University of Sydney Nano Institute have made a significant advance in the field of molecular robotics by developing custom-designed and programmable nanostructures using DNA origami.<\/p>\n<p>This innovative approach has potential across a range of applications, from targeted <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/drug+delivery+systems\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">drug delivery systems<\/a> to responsive materials and energy-efficient optical signal processing. The method uses \u201cDNA origami,\u201d so-called as it uses the natural folding power of DNA, the building blocks of human life, to create new and useful biological structures.<\/p>\n<p>As a proof-of-concept, the researchers made more than 50 <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/nanoscale+objects\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">nanoscale objects<\/a>, including a \u201cnano-dinosaur,\u201d a \u201cdancing robot\u201d and a mini-Australia that is 150 nanometers wide, a thousand times narrower than a human hair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at the University of Sydney Nano Institute have made a significant advance in the field of molecular robotics by developing custom-designed and programmable nanostructures using DNA origami. This innovative approach has potential across a range of applications, from targeted drug delivery systems to responsive materials and energy-efficient optical signal processing. The method uses \u201cDNA [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200333","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\/200333","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}