Put medicine in your body ... by rocket

In the not-too-distant future, nano-rockets are driven by a benign fuel that can carry drugs throughout the body.

>>>Video: Putting medicine into the body . by rocket

However, fuels such as hydrazine are often very toxic, so cannot be used inside the body. Currently, these tiny missiles have been researched, improved and manufactured to operate with a less toxic fuel.

Samuel Sanchez and other colleagues from the Materials Research Institute in Dresden, Germany created nanotubes by rolling metal plates covered with platinum into tubes with platinum inside.

When the team placed the tubes into a warm diluted hydrogen peroxide solution, the platinum catalyst stimulated the decomposition of peroxides into water and oxygen. This reaction will blow air bubbles to one end of the tube, creating thrust in the opposite direction.

The results of this study were published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society , issued on October 2.

Nano rockets can be used to put drugs inside the body.

As a result, the group has a rocket that travels 200 times its length every second, faster than the fastest-growing bacteria. The team can also control the tube by using a magnetic field and adjusting the speed by changing the temperature of the liquid.

This fuel contains only 0.25% peroxide but it is not absolutely safe. So, the next step is to develop a type of rocket that can operate with less peroxide or with a substance already in the body like glucose.

This is one of the few engines that works in blood, urine or saliva.