For the first time, chemists and engineers at Penn State University have placed synthetic nanomotors inside live human cells and using those motors to steer as they moved by acoustic vibrations.
The nanomotors, which are rod-shaped metal particles, spin around inside the cells, battering against the cell membrane. As the nanomotors spin and bump into intracellular structures, the cells respond with internal mechanical responses never before observed. Future uses of nanomotors may include mechanically manipulating cancerous and other diseased cells, performing “intracellular surgery,” or delivering drugs noninvasively to living tissues.
Read the full Penn State News article HERE.
Read the full Angewandte Chemie International Edition journal article HERE.
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