{"id":25593,"date":"2016-05-11T13:02:03","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T20:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/the-worlds-tiniest-most-powerful-nanoengine"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:00:06","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:00:06","slug":"the-worlds-tiniest-most-powerful-nanoengine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/the-worlds-tiniest-most-powerful-nanoengine","title":{"rendered":"The world\u2019s tiniest, most powerful nanoengine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-worlds-tiniest-most-powerful-nanoengine.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:none;\" class=\"\" title=\"polymer-coated gold nanoparticles\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-worlds-tiniest-most-powerful-nanoengine.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"451\"><b><center>Exploding polymer-coated gold nanoparticles in the world\u2019s tiniest engine (credit: Yi Ju\/University of Cambridge NanoPhotonics)<\/center><\/b><\/p>\n<p>University of Cambridge researchers have developed the world\u2019s tiniest engine, capable of a force per unit-weight nearly 100 times higher than any motor or muscle.<\/p>\n<p>The new nano-engines could lead to nanorobots small enough to enter living cells to fight disease, the researchers say.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Jeremy Baumberg from the Cavendish Laboratory, who led the research, has named the devices \u201cactuating nanotransducers\u201d (ANTs). \u201cLike real ants, they produce large forces for their weight,\u201d he quipped.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/the-worlds-tiniest-most-powerful-nanoengine\">http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/the-worlds-tiniest-most-powerful-nanoengine<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exploding polymer-coated gold nanoparticles in the world\u2019s tiniest engine (credit: Yi Ju\/University of Cambridge NanoPhotonics) University of Cambridge researchers have developed the world\u2019s tiniest engine, capable of a force per unit-weight nearly 100 times higher than any motor or muscle. The new nano-engines could lead to nanorobots small enough to enter living cells to fight [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25593","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\/25593","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\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25593"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67520,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25593\/revisions\/67520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}