{"id":699663,"date":"2021-08-20T12:31:02","date_gmt":"2021-08-20T16:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=699663"},"modified":"2021-08-20T12:31:02","modified_gmt":"2021-08-20T16:31:02","slug":"how-schools-of-microswimmers-can-increase-their-cargo-capacity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=699663","title":{"rendered":"How schools of &#039;microswimmers&#039; can increase their cargo capacity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new study published in\u00a0Physical Review Letters\u00a0describes a way to increase the cargo capacity of microscopic, self-propelled droplets known as &#8220;microswimmers.&#8221; Researchers from the\u00a0University of Pennsylvania\u00a0and the\u00a0Max Planck Institute\u00a0for Dynamics and Self-Organisation\u00a0found that when a school of microswimmers move in the same direction inside a narrow channel, they can increase the number of particles they can carry by 10-fold. Their findings have implications for applications ranging from drug delivery systems to materials with active coatings.\u00a0\u00a0&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2021-08-schools-microswimmers-cargo-capacity.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">How schools of &#8216;microswimmers&#8217; can increase their cargo capacity<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study published in\u00a0Physical Review Letters\u00a0describes a way to increase the cargo capacity of microscopic, self-propelled droplets known as &#8220;microswimmers.&#8221; Researchers from the\u00a0University of Pennsylvania\u00a0and the\u00a0Max Planck Institute\u00a0for Dynamics&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-699663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=699663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=699663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=699663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=699663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}