{"id":219381,"date":"2025-08-04T12:10:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T17:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/scientists-develop-microscopic-swimming-discs-that-could-help-clean-polluted-waters-pave-the-way-for-applications"},"modified":"2025-08-04T12:10:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T17:10:17","slug":"scientists-develop-microscopic-swimming-discs-that-could-help-clean-polluted-waters-pave-the-way-for-applications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/scientists-develop-microscopic-swimming-discs-that-could-help-clean-polluted-waters-pave-the-way-for-applications","title":{"rendered":"Scientists develop microscopic \u2018swimming\u2019 discs that could help clean polluted waters: \u2018Pave the way for applications\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-develop-microscopic-swimming-discs-that-could-help-clean-polluted-waters-pave-the-way-for-applications.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of researchers has created <a href=\"https:\/\/engineering.nyu.edu\/news\/scientists-create-light-powered-microscopic-swimmers-could-dramatically-advance-drug-delivery\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">small swimmers<\/a> that can harvest energy from their surroundings and convert it into movement. The discs, about twice as wide as a human hair, are amazingly partly made from dried food dye, according to a news release from New York University.<\/p>\n<p>The fascinating <a href=\"https:\/\/advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/adfm.202504046\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">project<\/a> includes experts from Harvard, the University of Chicago, and elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe essential new principles we discovered \u2014 how to make microscopic objects swim on command using simple materials that undergo phase transitions when exposed to controllable energy sources \u2014 pave the way for applications that range from design of responsive fluids, controlled drug delivery, and new classes of sensors, to name a few,\u201d lead researcher Juan de Pablo, from NYU, <a href=\"https:\/\/engineering.nyu.edu\/news\/scientists-create-light-powered-microscopic-swimmers-could-dramatically-advance-drug-delivery\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">said<\/a> in the summary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of researchers has created small swimmers that can harvest energy from their surroundings and convert it into movement. The discs, about twice as wide as a human hair, are amazingly partly made from dried food dye, according to a news release from New York University. The fascinating project includes experts from Harvard, the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1506],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219381","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}