{"id":25315,"date":"2016-05-03T20:01:37","date_gmt":"2016-05-04T03:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/scientists-develop-powerful-bio-compatible-nano-motor"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:00:47","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:00:47","slug":"scientists-develop-powerful-bio-compatible-nano-motor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/scientists-develop-powerful-bio-compatible-nano-motor","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Develop Powerful Bio-Compatible Nano-Motor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-develop-powerful-bio-compatible-nano-motor.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cambridge\u2019s new nano-scale light-powered piston engine that may one day energize devices to treat diseases directly or deliver drugs.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>At the University of Cambridge researchers have developed a nano-scale light-powered piston engine that may one day energize devices to treat diseases directly or deliver drugs in powerful new ways. The device consists of charged gold nanoparticles within a polymer that bends and relaxes in response to heat changes. The polymer absorbs water when cooled, expanding in size, while heating the gold nanoparticles using a laser raises the temperature of the polymer, shedding the absorbed water and relaxing in response. This process happens in a fraction of a second, and as long as a laser is made to flip between being on and off, the engine keeps working.<\/p>\n<p>According to the researchers, the force generated given the weight of the device is quite huge, at least a hundred times greater than existing motors or even muscle cells.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s like an explosion,\u201d said Dr Tao Ding from Cambridge\u2019s Cavendish Laboratory, and the paper\u2019s first author, in a press release. \u201cWe have hundreds of gold balls flying apart in a millionth of a second when water molecules inflate the polymers around them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.medgadget.com\/2016\/05\/scientists-develop-powerful-bio-compatible-nano-motor.html\">http:\/\/www.medgadget.com\/2016\/05\/scientists-develop-powerful...motor.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cambridge\u2019s new nano-scale light-powered piston engine that may one day energize devices to treat diseases directly or deliver drugs. At the University of Cambridge researchers have developed a nano-scale light-powered piston engine that may one day energize devices to treat diseases directly or deliver drugs in powerful new ways. The device consists of charged gold [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25315","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=25315"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67580,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25315\/revisions\/67580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}