{"id":88827,"date":"2019-03-20T14:23:08","date_gmt":"2019-03-20T21:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/levitating-objects-with-light"},"modified":"2019-03-20T14:23:08","modified_gmt":"2019-03-20T21:23:08","slug":"levitating-objects-with-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/levitating-objects-with-light","title":{"rendered":"Levitating objects with light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/levitating-objects-with-light.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at Caltech have designed a way to levitate and propel objects using only light, by creating specific nanoscale patterning on the objects\u2019 surfaces.<\/p>\n<p>Though still theoretical, the work is a step toward developing a spacecraft that could reach the nearest planet outside of our solar system in 20 years, powered and accelerated only by light.<\/p>\n<p>A paper describing the research appears online in the March 18 issue of the journal <i>Nature Photonics<\/i>. The research was done in the laboratory of Harry Atwater, Howard Hughes Professor of Applied Physics and Materials Science in Caltech\u2019s Division of Engineering and Applied Science.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019-03-levitating.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019&#45;03-levitating.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at Caltech have designed a way to levitate and propel objects using only light, by creating specific nanoscale patterning on the objects\u2019 surfaces. Though still theoretical, the work is a step toward developing a spacecraft that could reach the nearest planet outside of our solar system in 20 years, powered and accelerated only by [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,4,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-nanotechnology","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88827","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88827\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}