Light Activated Nanomotor Drills Through Cells and Membranes
October 31, 2017 | Terry Sharrer
The notion of a single molecule nanomotor, spinning at two to three million revolutions per second is mind-boggling in itself, but further, as a Rice University chemist who is involved in this development says “These nanomachines are so small that we could park 50,000 of them across the diameter of a human hair. Motorized molecules that target diseased cells may deliver drugs or kill the cells by drilling into the cell membranes. The illustration [see the video] shows a motorized molecule sitting atop a cell membrane and molecules activated by ultraviolet light drilling into the bilayer membrane.” MORE WITH VIDEO
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