"A schematic illustration depicting the generation of microdroplets through the integration of inverse colloidal crystal structures into a microfluidic system. The system demonstrated the capability to produce over 10,000 droplets per second. Credit: Masumi Yamada from Chiba University" (ScitechDaily, Pore Power Unleashed: Revolutionizing Microfluidics With High-Speed Droplet Production)
The nanodroplets can revolutionize fluids. The nanodroplets can used as acoustic transmitters. In that case, the droplet that can be gelatinous or hard will send in the structure. Then acoustic system makes that thing resonate. That resonance will send sound waves through the structure. However, the nanofroplets can used to carry polymers into the cells.
Those droplets can carry the "Pumbler's Nightmare" BCP (Block copolymers) nanopolymers in the wanted points of the cells. Those structures are created using the Block copolymers, that can order autonomously.
Scheme of a micelle formed by phospholipids in an aqueous solution (Wikipedia, Micelle). In micelle, the hydrophobic tails of other lipids can connect with the hydrophobic head of those lipids in the ball-molecule.
The Micelle ball- polymers can act as touchpoints. And those balls can turn into long chains. Or they can be used to adjust the way how other polymer chains touch each other. The system can also create long polymer chains using those ball-shaped polymers that touch together.
Researchers at POSTECH have successfully created the complex “plumber’s nightmare” structure in block copolymers, a groundbreaking achievement that paves the way for new applications in nano-technology and material science. This discovery demonstrates the potential for crafting diverse polymer nanostructures with tailored properties. (Artist’s concept). Credit: SciTechDaily (ScitechDaily, Turning the Impossible Possible: Korean Scientists Have Created the Notorious Plumber’s Nightmare Structure)
Visualization of nanostructures realized using di-end-functionalized BCPs. Credit: POSTECH (ScitechDaily, Turning the Impossible Possible: Korean Scientists Have Created the Notorious Plumber’s Nightmare Structure)
The new material called "Pumbler's Nightmare" is one of the examples of the new nanopolymer structures.
Self-assembling and self-forming materials are the newest tools that AI and nanotechnology can create. The idea of those fundamental nanomaterials is that they are based on long polymer chains and there is no limit to the length of polymers. That thing makes it possible to create crystal-type materials. That can form certain structures. And that thing makes the new technology about things like self-repairing structures possible.
In that material nanotechnology makes it possible to create the material that can make many things. Those nanomaterials can used to control tube leaks. Or they can used to replace antibiotics.
In the ideal case, that material could change its form between solid and liquid. The system could turn those nanomaterials or molecules in different positions to make bonds or cut them between those molecules. If that thing is possible to make using acoustic impulses that material can replace some antibiotics and cytostates.
The self-assembling complicated nanomaterials can also used in medical treatment for closing blood veins and filling injuries. The "Pumbler's Nightmare" is a hard nanostructure. Their nanopolymers form foam-like hard structures. The "Pumbler's Nightmare" can also used to destroy cells, like bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics. In the ideal cases. That kind of nanomaterial could return to the liquid form when it gets some kind of signal. In some ideas, the acoustic system can turn those nanoparticles in a different direction. And then they cut the bonds between those molecules.
https://scitechdaily.com/pore-power-unleashed-revolutionizing-microfluidics-with-high-speed-droplet-production/
https://scitechdaily.com/turning-the-impossible-possible-korean-scientists-have-created-the-notorious-plumbers-nightmare-structure/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microfluidics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micelle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micelle#Block_copolymer_micelles
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-assembly
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