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Micromotors with built-in compasses

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CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 48, Issue 81, Pages 10090-10092

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ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c2cc35671f

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  1. Volkswagen Foundation [I/84072, 86 362]

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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.

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