Chiang Mai University Involved in Tiny Nanobot’s Human Voyage
A Chiang Mai University team has developed a motor so small it will power a microscopic robot on an expedition through human blood vessels.
Boffins at the university’s science faculty describe their invention as a “nanomotor”. It will drive a medical robot about the size of a blood cell on a tour of the maze of human veins and capillaries.
A “nanobot” - or nanotechnology robot - developed at Kent State University in Ohio, United States will be powered by a motor made of an extremely fine and pure ceramic created at Chiang Mai University.
In addition to powering the nanobot, the piezoceramic - also known as “smart ceramics” - motor will navigate the machine on its exploration for such things as tiny tumours in internal organs.
It is remote controlled by either low-voltage electric current or microwaves, explains head researcher Assoc Prof Supon Ananta.
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