Liquid breathing can not effectively protect the lung from biophysical forces associated with the gas ventilator. New application modes for PFC have been developed. Partial liquid ventilation (PLV) involves filling the lungs with a fluid. This fluid is perfluorocarbon, also called Liquivent or Perflubron. The liquid has some unique properties. It has a very low surface tension, similar to surfactant, a substance that is produced in the lungs to prevent the alveoli from collapsing and sticking together during exhalation. It also has a high density, oxygen readily diffuses through it, and it may have some anti-inflammatory properties. In PLV, the lungs are
Surface tension-driven nanoelectromechanical relaxation oscillator Surface tension-driven nanoelectromechanical relaxation oscillator This page is a fragment, additional input from experts is wanted to fix any errors or add any relevant content to the article. A surface tension-driven nanoelectromechanical relaxation oscillator, or NEMRO for short, is currently the world's smallest motor. Constructed from a 200-nanometer-long nanotube, a pair of liquid indium spheres, one measuring 5 nanometers across and the other 15 nanometers across. Electricity flows across the nanotube from the large sphere to the smaller sphere, causing the spheres to shuffle atoms between the large sphere and the small sphere, making the larger sphere shrink and the