Chemical Power for Microscopic Robots in Capillaries
@article{Hogg2010ChemicalPF, title={Chemical Power for Microscopic Robots in Capillaries}, author={T. Hogg and R. Freitas}, journal={Nanomedicine : nanotechnology, biology, and medicine}, year={2010}, volume={6 2}, pages={ 298-317 } }
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The power available to microscopic robots (nanorobots) that oxidize bloodstream glucose while aggregated in circumferential rings on capillary walls is evaluated with a numerical model using axial symmetry and time-averaged release of oxygen from passing red blood cells. Robots about 1 microm in size can produce up to several tens of picowatts, in steady state, if they fully use oxygen reaching their surface from the blood plasma. Robots with pumps and tanks for onboard oxygen… CONTINUE READING
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