A 'Magnetic Edge' Allows Tiny Cubes to Self-Assemble On Demand (9 of 10) (VIDEO)

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Microcube clusters converting from one to another orientation (BAA to BBA to ABB sequence). 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: Han <em>et al.</em>, Sci. Adv. 2017;3: e1701108]

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