{"id":85940,"date":"2018-12-17T16:02:56","date_gmt":"2018-12-18T00:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/mit-researchers-can-shrink-objects-to-nanoscale"},"modified":"2018-12-17T16:02:56","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T00:02:56","slug":"mit-researchers-can-shrink-objects-to-nanoscale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/mit-researchers-can-shrink-objects-to-nanoscale","title":{"rendered":"MIT Researchers Can Shrink Objects to Nanoscale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mit-researchers-can-shrink-objects-to-nanoscale2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>MIT researchers <a href=\"http:\/\/news.mit.edu\/2018\/shrink-any-object-nanoscale-1213\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">invented a method<\/a> of shrinking objects to the nanoscale.<\/p>\n<p>The team can generate structures one-thousandth the volume of the original using a variety of materials, including metals, quantum dots, and DNA.<\/p>\n<p>Existing techniques\u2014like etching patterns onto a surface with light\u2014work for 2D nanostructures, but not 3D. And while it\u2019s possible to make 3D nanostructures, the process is slow, challenging, and restrictive.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/news\/mit-researchers-can-shrink-objects-to-nanoscale-1766243\/\">https:\/\/www.geek.com\/news\/mit-researchers-can-shrink-objects...e-1766243\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MIT researchers invented a method of shrinking objects to the nanoscale. The team can generate structures one-thousandth the volume of the original using a variety of materials, including metals, quantum dots, and DNA. Existing techniques\u2014like etching patterns onto a surface with light\u2014work for 2D nanostructures, but not 3D. And while it\u2019s possible to make 3D [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,4,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-nanotechnology","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85940","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}