Microrobots for micrometer-size objects in aqueous media: Potential tools for single-cell manipulation

Science

Volumn 288, Issue 5475, 2000, Pages 2335-2338

  Jager, Edwin W H ^a   Inganäs, Olle ^a   Lundström, Ingemar ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYPYRROLE;

AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; BIOSENSOR; CYCLIC POTENTIOMETRY; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROBOTICS;

BENZENESULFONATES; BODY FLUIDS; CYTODIAGNOSIS; CYTOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; GLASS; GOLD; HUMANS; MICROELECTRODES; MICROMANIPULATION; MICROSPHERES; MICROSURGERY; MINIATURIZATION; POLYCYCLIC COMPOUNDS; POLYMERS; POLYURETHANES; PYRROLES; ROBOTICS; SILICON; TECHNOLOGY, MEDICAL; WATER;

EID: 0034733571     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.288.5475.2335     Document Type: Article

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22. E.W.H.J. is a Ph.D. student in the graduate school Forum Scientum and thanks the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research (SSF) for its financial support. The micromuscle project is supported by the Swedish Research Council for Engineering Sciences (TFR).