Soft micromachines with programmable motility and morphology

Nature Communications

Volumn 7, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Huang, Hen Wei ^a   Sakar, Mahmut Selman ^b   Petruska, Andrew J ^a   Pané, Salvador ^a   Nelson, Bradley J ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; EUKARYOTE; FLAGELLATE; MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; MAGNETIC FIELD; MICROSTRUCTURE; MORPHOLOGY; MOTILITY;

ANISOTROPY; BODY REGIONS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAGNETIC FIELD; MORPHOLOGY; SWIMMING; CHEMISTRY; DEVICES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; MAGNETISM; MICROTECHNOLOGY; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PROCEDURES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA;

MAGNETITE NANOPARTICLE;

ANISOTROPY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; MAGNETICS; MAGNETITE NANOPARTICLES; MICROTECHNOLOGY; MOVEMENT;

EID: 84979295908     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms12263     Document Type: Article

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