scholarly journals Reconfigurable assembly of superparamagnetic colloids confined in thermo-reversible microtubes

Soft Matter ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (31) ◽  
pp. 6201-6211 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ping Liu ◽  
Julius W. J. de Folter ◽  
Andrei V. Petukhov ◽  
Albert P. Philipse

Confinement combined with the application of an external magnetic field results in a switchable structure formation of magnetizable colloidal spheres.

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mahla Mirzaee-Kakhki ◽  
Adrian Ernst ◽  
Daniel de las Heras ◽  
Maciej Urbaniak ◽  
Feliks Stobiecki ◽  
...  

Abstract Detailed control over the motion of colloidal particles is relevant in many applications in colloidal science such as lab-on-a-chip devices. Here, we use an external magnetic field to assemble paramagnetic colloidal spheres into colloidal rods of several lengths. The rods reside above a square magnetic pattern and are transported via modulation of the direction of the external magnetic field. The rods behave like bipeds walking above the pattern. Depending on their length, the bipeds perform topologically distinct classes of protected walks. We design parallel polydirectional modulation loops of the external field that command up to six classes of bipeds to walk on distinct predesigned paths. Using such loops, we induce the collision of reactant bipeds, their polymerization addition reaction to larger bipeds, the separation of product bipeds from the educts, the sorting of different product bipeds, and also the parallel writing of a word consisting of several letters. Our ideas and methodology might be transferred to other systems for which topological protection is at work.


2012 ◽  
Vol 628 ◽  
pp. 512-517 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sławomir Kciuk ◽  
Monika Kciuk ◽  
Roman Turczyn ◽  
Paweł Martynowicz

The main aim of the article was to present the investigation results of created megnetorheological fluids using carbonyl iron (CI) particles and analyse their behaviour in terms of the internal structure formation by a control of external magnetic field. Results of the experimental studies of a prototype magnetorheological rotary shock-absorber at various magnitudes of control current was presented in this paper.


Soft Matter ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mahla Mirzaee-Kakhki ◽  
Adrian Ernst ◽  
Daniel de las Heras ◽  
Maciej Urbaniak ◽  
Feliks Stobiecki ◽  
...  

Paramagnetic colloidal spheres assemble to colloidal bipeds of various length in an external magnetic field and walk on a magnetic pattern.


1980 ◽  
Vol 41 (C1) ◽  
pp. C1-445-C1-445
Author(s):  
G. Langouche ◽  
N. S. Dixon ◽  
L. Gettner ◽  
S. S. Hanna

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