Nature Communications (Nov 2017)

Orthogonal navigation of multiple visible-light-driven artificial microswimmers

  • Jing Zheng,
  • Baohu Dai,
  • Jizhuang Wang,
  • Ze Xiong,
  • Ya Yang,
  • Jun Liu,
  • Xiaojun Zhan,
  • Zhihan Wan,
  • Jinyao Tang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01778-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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The ability to direct microwimmers along a particular trajectory is advantageous for targeted drug delivery and manufacturing at the microscale. Here Zheng et al. use different types of light-absorbing dyes to enable selective activation of different microswimmers independently from each other.