Programmable artificial phototactic microswimmer

Nature Nanotechnology

Volumn 11, Issue 12, 2016, Pages 1087-1092

  Dai, Baohu ^a   Wang, Jizhuang ^a   Xiong, Ze ^a   Zhan, Xiaojun ^a   Dai, Wei ^a   Li, Chien Cheng ^a   Feng, Shien Ping ^a   Tang, Jinyao ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; ELECTROPHORESIS; FERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS; LIGHT SOURCES; MACHINERY; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; RADIATION DAMAGE;

BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS; DIRECTION OF MOTION; EXTERNAL MAGNETIC FIELD; MICRO-SWIMMER; NANO-STRUCTURED; PHOTOSYNTHETIC MICROORGANISMS; PROPULSION MECHANISMS; SELF-ELECTROPHORESIS;

ALGAE;

ANION; CATION; NANOWIRE; TITANIUM; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL PHOTOTACTIC MICROSWIMMER; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROPHORESIS; GREEN ALGA; ILLUMINATION; LIGHT; NANOMOTOR; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PHOTOANODE; PHOTOCATHODE; PHOTOTAXIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ZETA POTENTIAL; CHEMISTRY; DEVICES; LOCOMOTION; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SURFACE PROPERTY;

LIGHT; LOCOMOTION; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; NANOWIRES; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PHOTOTAXIS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TITANIUM;

EID: 84991573154     PISSN: 17483387     EISSN: 17483395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2016.187     Document Type: Article

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