Moving Water Molecules By Light

Posted by Hemos on Saturday July 31, 2004 @04:39AM from the each-one-a-new-building-block dept.

Roland Piquepaille writes "An interdisciplinary team of researchers at Arizona State University (ASU) has discovered a new nanotechnology effect, the ability of moving water molecules by light. This is a far better way than current methods such as damaging electric fields and opens the way to a new class of microfluidic devices used in analytical chemistry and for pharmaceutical research. For example, this makes possible to design a device that can move drugs dissolved in water, or droplets of water and samples that need to be tested for environmental or biochemical analyses. Please read this overview for more details and references, plus an image of two water drops illuminated with a fluorescent dye and sitting respectively on a nanowire surface and on a flat surface."

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What ever happened to good ol' fashioned by Anonymous Coward · 2004-07-31 05:00 · Score: 1, Funny

water displacement by feces?
You kids and your newfangled technologies....
You know you're a physicist when... by BitwizeGHC · 2004-07-31 05:07 · Score: 3, Funny

... you assume a "horse" is a "sphere" to make the math easier.

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Oh puh-LEASE! What's the big deal about that? by SnappingTurtle · 2004-07-31 05:37 · Score: 3, Funny

They just moved a few molecules of water with light? My girlfriend's dad once got me moving a lot faster and further by turning on the lights.

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