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Saturday, March 14, 2009

Artificial Flaggella

According to Ars Technica the Applied Physics Letters report that researchers have succeeded in creating the same microscopic propulsion devices found in nature. The rotation of the coiled tails of the flagella can be controlled by a magnetic field and steered. Such a mechanism could be used as a propulsion device for micro-robots in medical applications for example.

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