Dynamic self-assembly of magnetized, millimetre-sized objects rotating at a liquid-air interface

Nature

Volumn 405, Issue 6790, 2000, Pages 1033-1036

  Grzybowski, Bartosz A ^a   Stone, Howard A ^a   Whitesides, George M ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HYDRODYNAMICS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR STABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROTATION;

EID: 0034729748     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35016528     Document Type: Article

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