{"id":27647,"date":"2016-07-09T09:32:13","date_gmt":"2016-07-09T16:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/scientists-simulate-tiny-bacteria-powered-windfarm-to-power-micromachines"},"modified":"2017-06-04T19:52:04","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T02:52:04","slug":"scientists-simulate-tiny-bacteria-powered-windfarm-to-power-micromachines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/scientists-simulate-tiny-bacteria-powered-windfarm-to-power-micromachines","title":{"rendered":"Scientists simulate tiny bacteria-powered \u2018windfarm\u2019 to power micromachines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-simulate-tiny-bacteria-powered-windfarm-to-power-micromachines.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of scientists from Oxford University has shown how the natural movement of bacteria could be harnessed to assemble and power microscopic \u2018windfarms\u2019 \u2014 or other man-made micromachines such as smartphone components.<\/p>\n<p>The study, published in the journal Science Advances (\u201cActive micromachines: Microfluidics powered by mesoscale turbulenceence\u201d), uses computer simulations to demonstrate that the chaotic swarming effect of dense active matter such as bacteria can be organised to turn cylindrical rotors and provide a steady power source.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:none;\" itemprop=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-simulate-tiny-bacteria-powered-windfarm-to-power-micromachines.jpg\" alt=\"Scientists simulate tiny bacteria-powered windfarm\" border=\"0\" align=\"middle\"><\/p>\n<p>Scientists simulate tiny bacteria-powered \u2018windfarm\u2019.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nanowerk.com\/nanotechnology-news\/newsid=43890.php\">http:\/\/www.nanowerk.com\/nanotechnology-news\/newsid=43890.php<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of scientists from Oxford University has shown how the natural movement of bacteria could be harnessed to assemble and power microscopic \u2018windfarms\u2019 \u2014 or other man-made micromachines such as smartphone components. The study, published in the journal Science Advances (\u201cActive micromachines: Microfluidics powered by mesoscale turbulenceence\u201d), uses computer simulations to demonstrate that the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27647","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=27647"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66975,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27647\/revisions\/66975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}