Development of a ground-based simulated experimental platform for gravitational biology

IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 42-46

  Qian, Airong ^a   Yin, Dachuan ^a   Yang, Pengfei ^a   Jia, Bin ^a   Zhang, Wei ^a   Shang, Peng ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN POLYTECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Diamagnetic levitation; Large gradient high magnetic field; Simulated weightlessness; Superconducting magnet

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL EXPERIMENTS; CELL MORPHOLOGIES; COMPREHENSIVE PARAMETERS; DIAMAGNETIC LEVITATION; EXPERIMENTAL CONDITIONS; EXPERIMENTAL PLATFORMS; GAS CONTROL SYSTEMS; GROUND-BASED; LARGE GRADIENT HIGH MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETIC INDUCTION INTENSITIES; OBSERVING SYSTEMS; SAMPLE LOCATIONS; SIMULATED WEIGHTLESSNESS; SPACE LIFE SCIENCE; TECHNICAL SUPPORTS; TEMPERATURE CONTROL SYSTEMS; WEIGHTLESS ENVIRONMENTS;

ACCELERATOR MAGNETS; CELL GROWTH; ELECTROMAGNETS; GROWTH KINETICS; HUMIDITY CONTROL; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC LEVITATION; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; WEIGHTLESSNESS;

SUPERCONDUCTING MAGNETS;

EID: 64049089023     PISSN: 10518223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASC.2009.2012422     Document Type: Article

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