Noncontact orientation of objects in three-dimensional space using magnetic levitation

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 36, 2014, Pages 12980-12985

  Subramaniam, Anand Bala ^a   Yang, Dian ^b   Yu, Hai Dong ^a   Nemiroski, Alex ^a   Tricard, Simon ^a   Ellerbee, Audrey K ^a   Soh, Siowling ^a   Whitesides, George M ^a,c  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Colloidosomes; Equilibrium; Magneto Archimedes levitation; Self assembly; Soft robot

Indexed keywords

EID: 84906968891     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1408705111     Document Type: Article

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