For the first time, Scientists chanced the bonds of a single molecule.

Single-atom tractor beams power chemical catalysis. Credit: Research Team, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge (Phys.org/Single-atom tractor beams power chemical catalysis)

The new ability to change chemical bonds in a single molecule can be a revolutionary advance in nanotechnology. That makes it possible to connect new parts to nanomachines and makes it possible to creates new and more complicated molecules. And nanomachines are complicated molecules.

The IBM researchers used a scanning probe microscope for that operation, as you can see from above. There is the possibility to use also nanolasers for similar purposes. When the system creates nanomachines, nanolasers can adjust the temperature of the single atoms.

The temperature determines the reaction force of the atoms and molecules. The scanning probe microscope will observe the position of the molecules. And also it can use the subatomic tractor beams for making precise right structures.

Nanotechnology can use to create new and small-size electronic components like microchips that are controlling robots that are smaller than a flea. Those robots can get their control signals and electricity through the air by radio waves.

But they can also have small-photovoltaic cells. And the laser systems can deliver electricity for those systems. In the most advanced models, the living electric cells can deliver electricity to those systems. And that means those robot fleas can be very independent. The biological power source requires only sugars. That means the robot flea can drink the same things as humans.

The subatomic tractor beams, along with nanolasers. And scanning probe microscopes can turn the molecules in the wanted directions. That makes it possible to create complicated and well-adjusted molecular-size structures. Nanomachines can make many things like clean water and remove tumors from places where surgeons cannot reach them. The accuracy of nanomachines is very high. But the problem is how to control them?

Nanotechnology is a key element in next-generation genetic engineering. The nanorobots will cut the DNA just from the wanted points. And then those machines can make synthetic DNA. That allows for interconnecting DNA between species that are far from each other. This thing makes it possible that maybe in the world of tomorrow is not things like cancer. But there is needed lots of work with that thing.

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