Untethered soft magnetic pump for microfluidics-based Marangoni surfer

Abstract Microfluidics has enabled the miniaturization of fluidic systems for various biomedical and industrial applications, including small-scale robotic propulsion. One mechanism for generating propulsive force through microfluidics is by exploiting the solutal Marangoni effect via releasing surf...

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Published in:Scientific Reports
Main Authors: Yu-Hsiang Lin, Franco N. Piñan Basualdo, Venkatasubramanian Kalpathy Venkiteswaran, Sarthak Misra
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2024-08-01
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-70944-z