{"id":25017,"date":"2016-04-26T10:33:23","date_gmt":"2016-04-26T17:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/a-new-use-for-tesla-coils-self-assembling-nanotubes"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:27:12","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:27:12","slug":"a-new-use-for-tesla-coils-self-assembling-nanotubes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/a-new-use-for-tesla-coils-self-assembling-nanotubes","title":{"rendered":"A New Use for Tesla Coils: Self-Assembling Nanotubes"},"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\/I2R7HwwMoJE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rice.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rice University<\/a> are working on self-assembling wires that can move matter, essentially <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitaltrends.com\/cool-tech\/teslaphoresis-rice-university\/\">\u201cforce fields\u201d<\/a> powered by Tesla coils.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019ve been working \u201cvery quietly,\u201d said adjunct assistant professor Paul Cherukuri. He describes the project, which incorporates Tesla coils and nano-scale filaments, as \u201cself-assembly at a distance.\u201d The project started when the researchers were working with nanotubes, just seeing what they could do when pairing the coils with the electrification from Tesla coils.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pddnet.com\/news\/2016\/04\/new-use-tesla-coils-self-assembling-nanotubes\">http:\/\/www.pddnet.com\/news\/2016\/04\/new-use-tesla-coils-self-assembling-nanotubes<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at Rice University are working on self-assembling wires that can move matter, essentially \u201cforce fields\u201d powered by Tesla coils. They\u2019ve been working \u201cvery quietly,\u201d said adjunct assistant professor Paul Cherukuri. He describes the project, which incorporates Tesla coils and nano-scale filaments, as \u201cself-assembly at a distance.\u201d The project started when the researchers were working [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25017","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25017"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61965,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25017\/revisions\/61965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}