ArticleThe Review of scientific instruments2020
An experimental design for the control and assembly of magnetic microwheels.
Article in The Review of scientific instruments, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.
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10 citing papers in PubMed.
- Soft Microbot Traction on Structured Surfaces.Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids · 2025Article
- Magnetically powered microwheel thrombolysis of occlusive thrombi in zebrafish.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- Coupling magnetic torque and force for colloidal microbot assembly and manipulation.Advanced intelligent systems (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) · 2023Article
- Magnetically Powered Microwheel Thrombolysis of Occlusive Thrombi in Zebrafish.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2023Article
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- Paddlebots: Translation of Rotating Colloidal Assemblies near an Air/Water Interface.Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids · 2023Article
- Rolling of soft microbots with tunable traction.Science advances · 2023Article
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- Delivery and actuation of aerosolized microbots.Nano select : open access · 2022Article
- Multimodal microwheel swarms for targeting in three-dimensional networks.Scientific reports · 2022Article
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Abstract
Superparamagnetic colloidal particles can be reversibly assembled into wheel-like structures called microwheels (μwheels), which roll on surfaces due to friction and can be driven at user-controlled speeds and directions using rotating magnetic fields. Here, we describe the hardware and software to create and control the magnetic fields that assemble and direct μwheel motion and the optics to visualize them. Motivated by portability, adaptability, and low-cost, an extruded aluminum heat-dissipating frame incorporating open optics and audio speaker coils outfitted with high magnetic permeability cores was constructed. Open-source software was developed to define the magnitude, frequency, and orientation of the magnetic field, allowing for real-time joystick control of μwheels through two-dimensional (2D) and three-dimensional (3D) fluidic environments. With this combination of hardware and software, μwheels translate at speeds up to 50 µm/s through sample sizes up to 5 × 5 × 5 cm
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