Biological colloid engineering: Self-assembly of dipolar ferromagnetic chains in a functionalized biogenic ferrofluid

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 101, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Ruder, Warren C ^a   Hsu, Chia Pei D ^a   Edelman, Brent D ^b   Schwartz, Russell ^c   Leduc, Philip R ^a,c  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHAINS; COLLOIDS; MAGNETIC FLUIDS; MAGNETITE; MAGNETITE NANOPARTICLES; MEMS; NANOMAGNETICS; SELF ASSEMBLY;

APPLIED FIELD; AVIDIN-BIOTIN; BIOGENIC MAGNETITE; BIOGENICS; DYNAMIC BEHAVIORS; FERROMAGNETIC CHAINS; FUNCTIONALIZED; MAGNETIC COLLOIDS; NANOPARTICLE AGGREGATION; SINGLE DOMAINS;

SUBSTRATES;

EID: 84865140586     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4742329     Document Type: Article

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