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On-chip electric field driven assembly of biocomposites from live cells and functionalized particles
Shalini Gupta1, Rossitza G Alargova1, Peter K Kilpatrick1
1Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, 27695-7905, NC, USA. odvelev@unity.ncsu.edu.
Soft Matter
|September 10, 2020
Abstract:
Live cells and surface-functionalized synthetic microparticles are co-assembled on electrically controlled chips to yield permanent chains and one cell layer thick membranes that can be freely manipulated in external magnetic fields.

