{"id":77266,"date":"2018-03-29T23:22:44","date_gmt":"2018-03-30T06:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/ibm-scientists-first-to-demo-rocking-brownian-motors-for-nanoparticles"},"modified":"2018-04-03T12:15:06","modified_gmt":"2018-04-03T19:15:06","slug":"ibm-scientists-first-to-demo-rocking-brownian-motors-for-nanoparticles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/ibm-scientists-first-to-demo-rocking-brownian-motors-for-nanoparticles","title":{"rendered":"IBM Scientists First to Demo Rocking Brownian Motors for Nanoparticles"},"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\/esop3VVEqkg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Today, our IBM Research team published the first real world demonstration of a rocking Brownian motor for nanoparticles in the peer-review journal <a href=\"http:\/\/science.sciencemag.org\/content\/359\/6383\/1505\"><em>Science<\/em><\/a>. The motors propel nanoscale particles along predefined racetracks to enable researchers to separate nanoparticle populations with unprecedented precision. The reported findings show great potential for lab-on-a-chip applications in material science, environmental sciences or biochemistry.<\/p>\n<p><strong>No More Fairy Tales<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Do you remember the <a href=\"https:\/\/germanstories.vcu.edu\/grimm\/cinder.html\">Grimm version<\/a> of Cinderella when she had to pick peas and lentils out of the ashes? Now imagine that instead of peas and lentils you have a suspension of nanoparticles, which are only 60 nanometer (nm) and 100 nm in size \u2014 that\u2019s 1,000 times smaller than the diameter of a human hair. Using previous methods, one could separate them with a complicated filter or machines, however these are too bulky and complex to be integrated into a handheld lab-on-a-chip.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibm.com\/blogs\/research\/2018\/03\/rocking-brownian-motors-nanoparticles\/\">https:\/\/www.ibm.com\/blogs\/research\/2018\/03\/rocking-brownian-...particles\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, our IBM Research team published the first real world demonstration of a rocking Brownian motor for nanoparticles in the peer-review journal Science. The motors propel nanoscale particles along predefined racetracks to enable researchers to separate nanoparticle populations with unprecedented precision. The reported findings show great potential for lab-on-a-chip applications in material science, environmental sciences [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,4,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-nanotechnology","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77266","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\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77266"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77464,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77266\/revisions\/77464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}