\u201cNot only are existing nanorobots not yet small enough to slip inside a cell, the fuel used to propel them is so toxic that it kills all cells \u2013 even healthy ones \u2013 within minutes,\u201d he explains. \u201cWe\u2019re developing machine which are even smaller, avoiding metals in their construction, and doing away with the poisonous fuels altogether by using other methods of propulsion or guidance.\u201d<\/p>\n
His creations include self-propelling tubular motors that produce oxygen bubbles to keep themselves moving, particle transporters that can be switched on or off by UV light, and even tiny \u2018microdrills\u2019 that bore into cells and are steered magnetically. \u201cMagnetism is a good option for remotely manipulating these types of machines, as the magnetic fields are not harmful to the human body,\u201d he explains.tren en les c\u00e8l\u00b7lules i giren magn\u00e8ticament. \u201cEl magnetisme \u00e9s una bona opci\u00f3 per a la manipulaci\u00f3 remota d\u2019aquesta mena de m\u00e0quines perqu\u00e8 els camps magn\u00e8tics no s\u00f3n perjudicials per al cos hum\u00e0\u201d, revela S\u00e1nchez.<\/p>\n
For Dr. S\u00e1nchez, the move to Barcelona is a homecoming. After completing his PhD in Chemistry at the Autonomous University of Barcelona he moved to Japan as an independent researcher and later to Germany, where he will continue to maintain a laboratory at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems until December 2017. In 2012 he entered the Guinness Book of Records for inventing a type of micromotor, the world\u2019s smallest \u2018jet engine\u2019 and in the same year his research was a recognised with an ERC Starting Grant. In 2014, Dr. Sanchez was named \u201cInnovador del A\u00f1o\u201d by MIT Technology Review, the best of their ten selected \u201cInnovadores menores de 35 Espa\u00f1a 2014\u2033. It\u2019s an honour shared by Sergey Brin and Mark Zuckerberg, creators of Google and Facebook respectively, both of whom are previous winners of the American edition of the award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC)<\/a> welcomes Dr. Samuel S\u00e1nchez \u2013one of the world\u2019s top researchers \u2013 and a record-breaker \u2013 in the field of nano- and microrobots is coming \u2013who is taking up a new group leader of\u00a0IBEC’s\u00a0Smart nano-bio-devices<\/a>. there this month\u00a0Dr. S\u00e1nchez\u2019s pioneering work on micro- and nanomotors \u2013 machines as small as bacteria that can target specific cells in the body for applications such as highly localised drug delivery \u2013 will contribute greatly to one of IBEC\u2019s three areas of application:\u00a0Bioengineering for Future Medicine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n