Superparamagnetic microrobots: Fabrication by two-photon polymerization and biocompatibility

Biomedical Microdevices

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 997-1003

  Suter, Marcel ^a   Zhang, Li ^b   Siringil, Erdem C ^a   Peters, Christian ^a   Luehmann, Tessa ^c   Ergeneman, Olgac ^a   Peyer, Kathrin E ^a   Nelson, Bradley J ^a   Hierold, Christofer ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cytotoxicity; Magnetic actuation; Microrobots; Superparamagnetic nanocomposite

Indexed keywords

FABRICATION PARAMETERS; MAGNETIC ACTUATION; MAGNETIC MICROSTRUCTURES; MICROROBOTS; NANOPARTICLE CONCENTRATIONS; ROTATING MAGNETIC FIELDS; SUPERPARAMAGNETIC NANOCOMPOSITES; TWO PHOTON POLYMERIZATION;

BIOCOMPATIBILITY; CYTOTOXICITY; FABRICATION; MAGNETITE NANOPARTICLES; NANOMAGNETICS; NANOPARTICLES; PHOTONS; POLYMERIZATION; SUPERPARAMAGNETISM;

MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL;

NANOPARTICLE; POLYMER;

ARTICLE; BIOCOMPATIBILITY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INCUBATION TIME; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETISM; MECHANICS; MICROTECHNOLOGY; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROBOTICS; ROTATION;

CELL SURVIVAL; EPOXY COMPOUNDS; MAGNETITE NANOPARTICLES; MATERIALS TESTING; MICROTECHNOLOGY; PHOTONS; POLYMERIZATION; POLYMERS; ROBOTICS;

EID: 84890548222     PISSN: 13872176     EISSN: 15728781     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10544-013-9791-7     Document Type: Article

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