Issue 45, 2013
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Chemical Communications

Artificial micro-cinderella based on self-propelled micromagnets for the active separation of paramagnetic particles†

Guanjia Zhao,a   Hong Wang,a   Samuel Sanchez,b   Oliver G. Schmidtbc  and  Martin Pumera*a  

* Corresponding authors

a Division of Chemistry and Biological Chemistry, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
E-mail: pumera@ntu.edu.sg
Fax: +65-6791-1961

b Institute for Integrative Nanosciences, IFW Dresden, Helmholtzstrasse 20, D-01069 Dresden, Germany

c Material Systems for Nanoelectronics, Chemnitz Technical University, Reichenhainer Strasse 70, 09107 Chemnitz, Germany

Abstract

In this work, we will show that ferromagnetic microjets can pick-up paramagnetic beads while not showing any interaction with diamagnetic silica microparticles for the active separation of microparticles in solution.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C3CC41962B
Article type
Communication
Submitted
16 Mar 2013
Accepted
11 Apr 2013
First published
29 Apr 2013
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY license

Chem. Commun., 2013,49, 5147-5149

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Artificial micro-cinderella based on self-propelled micromagnets for the active separation of paramagnetic particles

G. Zhao, H. Wang, S. Sanchez, O. G. Schmidt and M. Pumera, Chem. Commun., 2013, 49, 5147 DOI: 10.1039/C3CC41962B

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