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Micromotors use surface variations for docking and guiding
Self-propelled Janus particles dock around micro-fabricated circular patterns. MPI-IS, Stuttgart

Micromotors use surface variations for docking and guiding

Researchers reveal that micromotors can be guided using tiny topographical patterns on the surfaces over which they swim.

  • 17 February 2016

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) and the University of Stuttgart have revealed in an article in Nature Communications that micromotors can be guided using tiny topographical patterns on the surfaces over which they swim.


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