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Lei Wang1,2, Yijing Liu1, Jie He1
1Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 20742, USA.
Small (Weinheim an Der Bergstrasse, Germany)
|May 1, 2015
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A microfluidic strategy is developed for the continuous fabrication of hybrid Janus vesicular motors that uniquely combine the capability of autonomous propulsion and externally controlled delivery of encapsulated payload.
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