{"id":178673,"date":"2022-04-11T21:10:10","date_gmt":"2022-04-11T15:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=178673"},"modified":"2022-04-11T21:10:10","modified_gmt":"2022-04-11T15:40:10","slug":"microbots-micro-swimmers-may-soon-help-with-drug-delivery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/microbots-micro-swimmers-may-soon-help-with-drug-delivery\/","title":{"rendered":"Microbots: \u2018Micro-swimmers\u2019 may soon help with drug delivery"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Researchers have found <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">that it is possible to use light as a fuel to move microbots in real-body conditions for intelligent drug delivery.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What have the researchers developed?<\/b><\/h5>\n<figure id=\"attachment_178702\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-178702\" style=\"width: 524px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-178702 \" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/micswim.jpg?resize=524%2C396&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Microbots\" width=\"524\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/micswim.jpg?w=744&amp;ssl=1 744w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/micswim.jpg?resize=300%2C227&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 524px) 100vw, 524px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-178702\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: The Hindu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Researchers have developed a microbot made from the two-dimensional compound poly (heptazine imide) carbon nitride (aka PHI carbon nitride).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These microbots are like miniaturized humans. They range from 1-to 10 micrometres (a micrometre is one-millionth of a meter) in size and can self-propel when energized by shining light.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>How do these microbots swim?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The PHI carbon nitride mi\u00adcroparticles are photocata\u00adlytic. This means that, just like in a solar cell, the incident light is converted into electrons and holes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These charges drive reactions in the surrounding liquid. This reaction combined with the particle\u2019s electric \ufb01eld makes the microbots (micro\u00ad swimmers) swim.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hence, as long as there is light, electrons and holes are pro\u00adduced on the surface of the swimmers, which in turn react to form ions and an electric \ufb01eld around the swimmer. These ions move around the particle and cause \ufb02uid to \ufb02ow around the particle. So this \ufb02uid \ufb02ow causes the microbots to \u00adswim.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the significance of this development?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This development has shown that it i\u200b\u200bs possible to have microrobots streaming through blood or through other fluids in the human body, which are driven by light and can carry drugs to cancer cells and drop off the medication on the spot.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><b>\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This post is based on the article <\/span><b>\u201c\u2018Micro-swimmers\u2019 may soon help with drug delivery\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in<\/span><b> The Hindu <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">on<\/span><b> 10th April 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the News? Researchers have found that it is possible to use light as a fuel to move microbots in real-body conditions for intelligent drug delivery. What have the researchers developed? Researchers have developed a microbot made from the two-dimensional compound poly (heptazine imide) carbon nitride (aka PHI carbon nitride). These microbots are like&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/microbots-micro-swimmers-may-soon-help-with-drug-delivery\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Microbots: \u2018Micro-swimmers\u2019 may soon help with drug delivery<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1738,9],"tags":[10498],"class_list":["post-178673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700773806,"cached_date":1704819090},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}