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Fabrication Procedures and Birefringence Measurements for Designing Magnetically Responsive Lanthanide Ion Chelating Phospholipid Assemblies
Published on: January 3, 2018
Helical and tubular lipid microstructures that are electroless-coated with CoNiReP for wireless magnetic manipulation
Simone Schuerle1, Salvador Pané, Eva Pellicer
1Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Abstract:
Hybrid magnetic phospholipidic-based tubular and helical microagents are wirelessly manipulated by means of a 5-DOF electromagnetic system. Two different strategies are used to manipulate these nanostructures in simulated biologic capillaries. Tubules are pulled by applying magnetic field gradients and oriented by magnetic fields. Helices exhibit a cork-screw motion similar to the swimming strategy used by motile bacteria such as E. coli.
