{"id":686,"date":"2012-09-24T11:34:53","date_gmt":"2012-09-24T15:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lallyacoustics.com\/blog\/?p=686"},"modified":"2012-09-24T12:50:20","modified_gmt":"2012-09-24T16:50:20","slug":"drop-less-droplets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lallyacoustics.com\/blog\/archives\/686","title":{"rendered":"Drop-less droplets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a setup that&#8217;s equal parts science and Harry Potter, <a title=\"Real-world levitation to inspire better pharmaceuticals\" href=\"http:\/\/www.anl.gov\/articles\/no-magic-show-real-world-levitation-inspire-better-pharmaceuticals\" target=\"_blank\">scientists at Argonne National Laboratory acoustically levitate liquids in midair<\/a> to further critical pharmaceutical reasearch. Using a technology originally developed by NASA to simulate microgravity conditions, the pharmaceutical droplets are suspended in midair using <a title=\"Standing waves\" href=\"http:\/\/physics.info\/waves-standing\/\" target=\"_blank\">standing waves<\/a> of inaudible ultrasound generated by small speakers above and below.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/669AcEBpdsY?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">By suspending a drug this way\u2014free from any container or other physical contact\u2014scientists can study its various forms and the ways it might be absorbed by the body. Not to mention putting on a pretty cool show in the process!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a setup that&#8217;s equal parts science and Harry Potter, scientists at Argonne National Laboratory acoustically levitate liquids in midair to further critical pharmaceutical reasearch. Using a technology originally developed by NASA to simulate microgravity conditions, the pharmaceutical droplets are suspended in midair using standing waves of inaudible ultrasound generated by small speakers above and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,5],"tags":[51,52,25,33],"class_list":["post-686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-technical","tag-demonstrations","tag-frequency","tag-modes","tag-speakers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lallyacoustics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lallyacoustics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lallyacoustics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lallyacoustics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lallyacoustics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=686"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.lallyacoustics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":692,"href":"https:\/\/www.lallyacoustics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686\/revisions\/692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lallyacoustics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lallyacoustics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lallyacoustics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}