Nature Communications (Oct 2017)

Neutrophil-inspired propulsion in a combined acoustic and magnetic field

  • Daniel Ahmed,
  • Thierry Baasch,
  • Nicolas Blondel,
  • Nino Läubli,
  • Jürg Dual,
  • Bradley J. Nelson

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00845-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Devising effective swimming and propulsion strategies in microenvironments is attractive for drug delivery applications. Here Ahmed et al. demonstrate a micropropulsion strategy in which a combination of magnetic and acoustic fields is used to assemble and propel colloidal particles along channel walls.