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Larisa Florea1, Klaudia Wagner, Pawel Wagner
1Insight Centre for Data Analytics, National Centre for Sensor Research, Dublin City University, Dublin, 9, Ireland.
Advanced Materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)
|September 20, 2014
Abstract:
The controlled movement of a chemical container by the light-activated expulsion of a chemical fuel, named here "photo-chemopropulsion", is an exciting new development in the array of mechanisms employed for controlling the movement of microvehicles, herein represented by lipid-based microdroplets. This "chemopropulsion" effect can be switched on and off, and is fully reversible.

