Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0773221

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0773221

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Asymmetrically Twisted Structures to form High-Power Rotary Micromotors for In-Vivo Swimming Microrobots. Major surgery is traumatic and risky, but often the only choice for the most serious of diseases that affect older people. In this study, we aim to provide doctors with a means to avoid major surgery and extend the capabilities of doctors to diagnose and treat patients using non- and minimally-invasive procedures: a powerful micromotor carrying its own power supply and a special flagellar propeller to swim within the vascular and digestive systems of the human body to perform tasks via remote control. We also aim to understand the mechanisms underlying the operation of our motor system and flagellar motion in fluids to assist in the understanding of twisted blade structures and propulsion in fluids on the micro-scale.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2007

End Date: 31-01-2010

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $300,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Biomedical Engineering Not Elsewhere Classified | Other Physical Sciences | Instruments And Techniques | Acoustics And Acoustical Devices; Waves

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Cardiovascular system and diseases | Medical instrumentation | Surgical methods and procedures |

Other Keywords

Acoustics And Acoustical Devices; Waves | Biomedical Engineering Not Elsewhere Classified | Cardiovascular system and diseases | Instruments And Techniques | Medical instrumentation | Other Physical Sciences | Surgical methods and procedures

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