Rotation of bacteria sheet driven micro gear in open micro channel

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 4080-4085

  Miyamoto, Tatsuya ^a   Kojima, Masaru ^a   Nakajima, Masahiro ^a   Homma, Michio ^a   Fukuda, Toshio ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

bacteria; bio motor; micro gear; micro structure; surface swarming

Indexed keywords

NANOROBOTS;

MICRO GEAR; MICRO-NANO; POWER SOURCES; ROTATIONAL MOVEMENT; TRANSMIT POWER; VIBRIO ALGINOLYTICUS;

BACTERIA;

EID: 84864491939     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICRA.2012.6225345     Document Type: Conference Paper

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