Trifunctional alginate magnetic robots for biomedical applications (IMAGE)

International Journal of Extreme Manufacturing

Trifunctional alginate magnetic robots for biomedical applications

Caption

(a) Simple manufacturing process of magnetic alginate robots with triple magnetic functionality. (b) The unique alginate robots exhibit three different magnetic functionalities: localized thermal control, MPI-based position tracking and selective locomotion under low magnetic fields. These functionalities are key to accelerating the actual implementation of magnetic microrobots in biomedical applications.

Credit

By Armando Ramos-Sebastian§, Ja-Sung Lee§, Won-Il Song, Dong-Min Ji, So-Jung Gwak* and Sung Hoon Kim*

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