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NANOSCALE
Volume 6, Issue 20, Pages 12142-12150Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c4nr02953d
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- German-Israeli Foundation (GIF) [I-1255-303.10/2014]
- Israel Ministry for Immigrant Absorption
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Externally powered magnetic nanomotors are of particular interest due to their potential use for in vivo biomedical applications. Here we develop a theory for dynamics and polarization of recently fabricated superparamagnetic chiral nanomotors powered by a rotating magnetic field. We study in detail various experimentally observed regimes of the nanomotor dynamic orientation and propulsion and establish the dependence of these properties on polarization and geometry of the propellers. Based on the proposed theory we introduce a novel steerability parameter gamma that can be used to rank polarizable nanomotors by their propulsive capability. The theoretical predictions of the nanomotor orientation and propulsion speed are in excellent agreement with available experimental results. Finally, we apply slender-body approximation to estimate the polarization anisotropy and orientation of the easy-axis of superparamagnetic helical propellers.
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