A 'Magnetic Edge' Allows Tiny Cubes to Self-Assemble On Demand (2 of 10) (VIDEO)

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Video of magnetic microbot capturing, dragging and releasing a live cell. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Aug. 4, 2017, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by K. Han at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, NC, and colleagues was titled, 'Sequence-encoded colloidal origami and microbot assemblies from patchy magnetic cubes.'

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[Credit: Movies taken by Koohee Han and Dr. Wyatt Shields, provided by Prof. Orlin D. Velev, NC State University.]

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