The cone-shaped microsubmarines can collect droplets of olive oil and motor oil in water and transport them through the water.

First “microsubmarines” designed to help clean up oil spills

By American Chemical Society Joseph Wang, D.Sc.—— Bio and Archives--May 2, 2012

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ACS Nano Scientists are reporting development and successful testing of the first self-propelled “microsubmarines” designed to pick up droplets of oil from contaminated waters and transport them to collection facilities. The report concludes that these tiny machines could play an important role in cleaning up oil spills, like the 2010 Deepwater Horizon incident in the Gulf of Mexico. It appears in the journal ACS Nano.

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