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Engineers build a nanomotor that can fit inside a single cell
Posted on 5/21/14 at 2:51 pm
Posted on 5/21/14 at 2:51 pm
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Researchers at the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin have built the smallest, fastest and longest-running tiny synthetic motor to date. The team's nanomotor is an important step toward developing miniature machines that could one day move through the body to administer insulin for diabetics when needed, or target and treat cancer cells without harming good cells.
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With all its dimensions under 1 micrometer in size, the nanomotor could fit inside a human cell and is capable of rotating for 15 continuous hours at a speed of 18,000 RPMs, the speed of a motor in a jet airplane engine.
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In the near future, the Cockrell School researchers believe their nanomotors could provide a new approach to controlled biochemical drug delivery to live cells.
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Posted on 5/21/14 at 2:52 pm to Cs
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Posted on 5/21/14 at 3:01 pm to Cs
What energy source allows it to run for 15 hours at 18,000 RPM?
Posted on 5/21/14 at 3:03 pm to colorchangintiger
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What energy source allows it to run for 15 hours at 18,000 RPM?
Cocaine.
Posted on 5/21/14 at 3:07 pm to ForeverLSU02
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does not compute
Good call. I guess not everything is big in Texas.
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