| Literature DB >> 22955117 |
Guanjia Zhao1, Samuel Sanchez, Oliver G Schmidt, Martin Pumera.
Abstract
We demonstrate here that iron containing rolled-up microtubular engines can be magnetized and act as compass needles - they sense the direction of an external magnetic field from afar and align the directionalities of their movements according to the external field, in a similar fashion to magnetotactic bacteria.Entities:
Year: 2012 PMID: 22955117 DOI: 10.1039/c2cc35671f
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Chem Commun (Camb) ISSN: 1359-7345 Impact factor: 6.222