Designing micro-and nanoswimmers for specific applications

Accounts of Chemical Research

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 2-11

  Katuri, Jaideep ^a,b   Ma, Xing ^b,c   Stanton, Morgan M ^b   Sánchez, Samuel ^a,b,d  

^a INSTITUTE FOR BIOENGINEERING OF CATALONIA IBEC   (Spain)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS   (Germany)

^c HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^d INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLOID; NANOMATERIAL;

BACTERIAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; COLLOID; HUMAN; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; SPERMATOZOON;

BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; COLLOIDS; HUMANS; MALE; NANOSTRUCTURES; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 85014071089     PISSN: 00014842     EISSN: 15204898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.accounts.6b00386     Document Type: Article

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