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Published on: November 15, 2012
Preliminary investigation of bio-carriers using magnetotactic bacteria
1Dept. of Comput. Eng., Univ. de Montreal, QUE, Canada.
Abstract:
This paper proposes a novel micro-carrier based on magnetotactic bacteria (MTB). To confirm the feasibility of such carriers, the thrust force of the bacteria is evaluated. By measuring the swimming speed of MC-1 bacteria in an unbounded medium, a thrust of 4 pN generated by a single MC-1 bacterium is found. The effects on the MTB's swimming speed under the control of micro-electromagnets and influenced by the wall effects when each MTB is attached to a microbead are investigated.
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